COVID 19 will return like a flu after Omicron but it won’t be a pandemic as per US researcher
Akankshya Mukherjee, Mumbai Uncensored, 28th January 2022 :
Almost 50% of the current world population has been infected by the Omicron variant of the COVID 19 by March, while the pandemic should be ending soon. COVID 19 is expected to become a viral disease such as flu, as published in an article of The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal which is based in UK.
An article authored on 19th January by Christopher J.L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, it is a research centre at the University of Washington, USA. After the Omicron wave, according to US researcher “COVID 19 will return, but won’t be a pandemic”.
Christopher J.L. Murray wrote “The unprecedented level of infection suggests that more than 50 per cent of the world will have been infected with Omicron between the end of November 2021 and end of March 2022”. He further adds “Since the proportion of cases that are asymptomatic or mild has increased, compared to previous coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) variants, the infection-detection rate has declined globally to 5% from 20 %”. Moreover, Murray notes that increasing usage of masks, expanding Vaccination coverage or Booster doses of COVID 19 Vaccines taken at this stage of the pandemic will have a limited impact on the course of the Omicron wave.
Christopher J.L. Murray clarifies that while these interventions still work to protect individuals from COVID 19, the speed of the Omicron wave is so fast that policy actions will have little effect on its course globally in the next 4 to 6 weeks. “The impacts of future SARS-CoV-2 transmission on health, however, will be less because of broad previous exposure to the virus, regularly adapted vaccines to new antigens or variants, the advent of antivirals, and the knowledge that the vulnerable can protect themselves during future waves when needed by using high-quality masks and physical distancing” Mr Murray writes.
Mr Christopher Murray adds that COVID 19 will become just like another recurrent disease that health systems and societies will have to manage: “For example, the death toll from Omicron seems to be similar in most countries to the level of a bad influenza season in northern hemisphere countries”.
