Omikron wave changes the situation in the USA significantly - expert expresses drastic fears

Created: 01/12/2022, 12:58 PM

From: Jennifer Lanzinger

What is the next step in Germany in view of the Omikron variant?

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The Omikron wave has hit Germany and many other countries, especially in the USA, the numbers are skyrocketing.

US expert Fauci now expresses a drastic fear.

• The omicron mutation is causing increasing numbers worldwide.

• The US expert Anthony Fauci is certain: the new variant will affect almost everyone.

• This news ticker for the Omikron variant is continuously updated.

Washington - The Corona * pandemic has had the world and Germany firmly under control for two years.

On Wednesday, January 12, the Robert Koch Institute confirmed a new, sad infection record in Germany.

Above all, the new Corona variant Omikron is currently causing increasing numbers of infections.

The US expert Anthony Fauci is certain: the particularly contagious mutation will affect almost everyone.

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"With the extraordinary and unprecedented effectiveness of the transfer, Omikron will ultimately find almost everyone," said the immunologist and presidential advisor on Tuesday, January 11th.

The Corona * mutation could also hit people who have been vaccinated.

But most of them wouldn’t have a hard time.

Serious infections or even hospital treatment are less likely with Omikron.

Fauci explained this in an interview with the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

The worst will hit those who are still not vaccinated, the expert said.

An omicron wave is currently raging in the USA as well.

208 million people there are fully vaccinated, i.e. almost 63 percent of the population.

76 million people have received a booster vaccination so far.

Omicron mutation sends numbers skyrocketing: USA hard hit

Fauci's testimony came just hours after a similar-sounding warning from the acting chief of the US FDA, Janet Woodcock. "It is difficult to process what is actually happening at the moment, namely that most people will get Covid," she told Omikron at a hearing in the US Senate. "We need to make sure that the hospitals are still working, that transportation and other essential services are not interrupted while this is happening," said Woodcock.

CDC director Rochelle Walensky said at the hearing that Omikron is "driving the case numbers to unprecedented heights here in the United States and around the world."

According to CDC data, there have been around 750,000 confirmed new infections per day in the USA over the past seven days.