haxxiy on 02 January 2022
This is moving even faster than I had anticipated. But I share the (newfound?) optimism of the WHO that the pandemic should end this year since the next two to three months alone will see:
* Most of the population of middle and high-income countries receiving boosters
* Accelerating vaccination in Africa
* Omicron infecting up to half of the world's population and the resulting immunity
* Multiple antivirals becoming available
With the caveat being the possible survival and co-circulation of one or more non-Omicron lineages that behave more like the older variants. But this becomes less of a concern as fewer and fewer people worldwide are neither infected nor vaccinated.
