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Omicron seems less severe, but can’t let our guard down: Fauci 

The Times of India | 13/01/2022 09:08 AM | Click to read full article

The Omicron will infect “just about everybody”, but those who are vaccinated will “very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well”, avoiding hospitalisation and death.

“Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody,” US expert Anthony Fauci said in a talk at a Washington DC thinktank. That does not mean letting down one’s guard or, as some health professionals have suggested, willfully getting infected.

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