'I'm worried and I know people are tired of this. I'm tired of this, but the virus is not tired of us,' he said.
Dr. Francis Collins, who retired as director of the National Institutes of Health, this past weekend, has some parting words for Americans who are fed up with the coronavirus: The virus is not fed up with you.
“Nobody was expecting omicron,” he said. “This one really was a curveball. It’s almost like we’re starting over with a different virus from where we began.” While appearing to be milder, this variant is proving more resilient to vaccines. As such, he urged people to get their boosters, and said even if a small fraction of omicron infections are serious, it will still be a big number. “We could be having 1 million cases a day if we’re not really attentive to all these mitigation strategies.”
Recent research suggests the Pfizer-BioNTech PFE BNTX and Moderna MRNA booster shots offer more antibodies and protection against serious illness from omicron than the AstraZeneca AZN and Johnson & Johnson JNJ vaccines do.
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