Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 producing a “tsunami” of cases between them.
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Ryan said that omicron infections began largely among young people,"but what we haven’t seen is the omicron wave fully established in the broader population. And I’m a little nervous to make positive predictions until we see how well the vaccine protection is going to work in those older and more vulnerable populations."
FILE - World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus waves as he arrives for a meeting of G20 finance and health ministers at the Salone delle Fontane in Rome, Oct. 29, 2021.
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