Dr. Nicole Saphier called Omicron a “mild” variant of Covid-19, but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous
Dr. Anthony Fauci has also said that early data indicates perhaps a milder illness, but he struck a more cautious note, adding that there could be other reasons symptoms haven’t been as bad in South Africa. “The level of severity appears to be maybe a bit less than Delta,” he. “But there are a lot of confounding issues there.
Saphier went ahead and advocated for letting the Omicron variant run wild based on this preliminary information. “At this point, it is time to move forward and allow this mild infection to circulate so we can continue to build that hybrid immunity — the combination of vaccine-induced and natural immunity, which is proven to be the most robust form of immunity that will continue to build that wall of protection,” she said.
One of the many problems with letting Omicron “circulate” is that it means also allowing the Delta variant to continue to circulate, and last we checked you can’t decided which strain of the virus you contract. Another is that leaning on the “robust” combination of “vaccine-induced and natural immunity” is undercut by the fact that tens of millions of Americans are not vaccinated.
This vulnerability has grown increasingly apparent in recent weeks. Many areas of the country already have more Covid cases than their health care system can handle. Some hospitals in Pennsylvania are
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