Is the worst part of pandemic to arrive? Omicron breaks the history record of virus spreading rate

“Just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic. Omicron will hit home for all of us. Close friends of mine now have it, and I’ve canceled most of my holiday plans,” Gates tweeted. 

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus might herald the worst stage of the pandemic, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates notified on a Twitter thread on Tuesday. With the new variant “spreading faster than any virus in history”, Gates urged people to get booster shots, and to take adequate precautions to preclude the spread of the disease. 

“Just when it seemed like life would return to normal, we could be entering the worst part of the pandemic. Omicron will hit home for all of us. Close friends of mine now have it, and I’ve canceled most of my holiday plans,” Gates tweeted.

He said that the new variation is likely to soon make its existence felt in every country in the world. But with little data on “how sick Omicron makes you”, Gates stressed that it was important to take it seriously until we know more about it. 

We will soon jump sighted an upsurge in breakthrough circumstances in people who have already been vaccinated. “Which sounds concerning but is purely a factor of how many people are vaccinated and how fast this variant is spreading. Vaccines are designed to prevent people from getting seriously ill or dying and are doing that well,” Gates wrote on Tuesday. 

Is it some good news?

While the Omicron wave will quickly become dominant, Gates believes it won’t last long. “Once it becomes dominant in a country, the wave there should last less than 3 months,” he went on to say. “Those few months could not be good, but I still believe that if we take the correct steps, the pandemic can be over in 2022.”