Here's the latest prediction from the infectious disease expert.
As much as many of us would love for Omicron to be the last iteration of the virus that pops up, virus experts have said they cannot assure this yet. After all, we're already seeing a mutated version of this variant arise., MD, Johns Hopkins' vice chair of medicine for data integrity and analytics, told Hopkins Medicine that this is because as long as the coronavirus"New variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are detected every week," Ray said.
And there isn't any certainty that new versions of COVID will not be as troublesome as Omicron, or even more so."We can't guarantee that there will not be another variant that challenges us," Fauci confirmed."But the best that we can do with that is to be prepared for it."Shutterstock The infectious disease expert said that one of the ways that the country is working to push towards the end of the pandemic, as well as better prepare for potential new variants, is by enhancing COVID vaccines. For example, both Moderna and Pfizer are in the middle offor vaccines designed specifically to combat the Omicron variant, according to CNBC.
"That's why we're doing all the things that we're doing with regard to getting better, more advanced vaccine," Fauci said during the press briefing.
Currently, the U.S. National Institutes of Health is also providing about $43 million in funds for various projects to develop"" vaccines that are intended to protect against more than one type, according to ABC News. But Fauci, NIH's infectious disease director, said that this kind of development is likely still years away."I don't want anyone to think that pan-coronavirus vaccines are literally around the corner," he told ABC News.
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