Is there gonna be other options after omitron? Speaks, Bill Gates

With an infectious capacity much higher than his ancestors, infections have increased significantly. However, this uncontrolled rise in infections may have a positive impact on the future of pandemic, as some experts have previously announced regarding the slightest severity caused by Omitron.

Bill Gates, one of the most active voices since the beginning of the pandemic, also stands on this line.

“While countries experience Omitron wave, health systems will be affected. Most of the heavy cases will be unexplored people. Once Omitron passes through one country, the rest of the year must have much less cases, so COVID can be treated more as a seasonal flu”, he said.

Microsoft's co-founder has been expressed during a social network conversation with Devi Sridhar, director of Global Health Governor and professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Edinburgh University, that vaccines do very well prevent serious cases and deaths, but lack two key things: they do not prevent infection and are limited in time to immunity they give”.

But what about Omitron? According to Gates, it is impossible to produce a new version that is more transmitted than Omitron.

But the virus has surprised us greatly in this pandemic”, he warns.

Millions of infections of this variant will generate a lot of natural immunity over the next year, despite that, Bill Gates believes that “may have to vaccinate against each year COVID for a while”.