Why Omicron Will Be The Last COVID Variant of (Major) Concern

By Amy Rogers, MD, PhD

Virus evolution illustrated as branches of a tree, from CDC video “Understanding Variants“

In my last post I said, “I’m not worried about another, more contagious variant emerging. Omicron is that variant.” I further argued that we were on the verge of achieving a type of herd immunity in the US.

Several people asked a good question about my rosy prediction. In an interconnected world with dismal…