The Omicron variant of the coronavirus, which has discovered its approach into quite a few European nations in current days, will “inevitably” get to the US, Anthony Fauci, director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses, stated Sunday.
“The query is: Will we be ready for it?” he stated on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos. “The preparation that we’ve got ongoing, for what we’re doing now with the Delta variant, simply must be revved up.”
And an enormous a part of that preparation lies in our vaccination and booster efforts, he stated. “If and when — and it will be when — it comes right here, hopefully, we will probably be prepared for it by enhancing our capabilities by way of the vaccine, masking, all of the issues that we do and ought to be doing,” Fauci stated.