Fauci: The highly contagious omicron COVID variant will ‘find just about everybody.’

Fauci: The highly contagious omicron COVID variant will ‘find just about everybody.’

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/01/11/fauci-the-highly-contagious-omicron-covid-variant-will-find-just-about-everybody/

(CNN) — As the Omicron variant spreads like wildfire across the United States, it’s likely just about everybody will be exposed to the strain, but vaccinated people will still fare better, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said Tuesday.

“Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Those who have been vaccinated … and boosted would get exposed. Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected but will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well in the sense of not having hospitalization and death.”