Omicron will eventually "find just about everybody," Fauci says

Omicron will eventually "find just about everybody," Fauci says With the accelerated spread of the Omicron variant, many more people will find themselves at least exposed to the virus, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday. By <a href="/profiles/rhea-mogul">Rhea Mogul</a>, Adam Renton, Jack Guy and Ed Upright, CNN CNN

With the accelerated spread of the Omicron variant, many more people will find themselves at least exposed to the virus, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.

“I think in many respects, Omicron with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody,” Fauci told J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, in response to a question on whether the pandemic had entered “a new phase.”

“Unfortunately, those who are still unvaccinated are going to get the brunt of the severe aspect of this,” he said.  ...