Omicron’s most crucial warning: A disease can move much faster than we can

Omicron’s most crucial warning: A disease can move much faster than we can Our approach to pandemic response can’t react fast enough for a Covid-19 variant like omicron. That should scare us. Kelsey Piper Vox

By some estimates, about 40 percent of the population of the United States will have been infected with the omicron variant of Covid-19 by the time the current wave fully subsides. The WHO estimates that half of Europe will have been infected as well. And nearly all of those infections will have occurred between mid-December and the beginning of February...

But now, thanks to our far more interconnected world, an incredibly contagious virus required only about two months to go from when it was first detected — November 11 in Botswana — to when likely more than 2 billion people had been infected...