Omicron might not turn out “as bad as we're perhaps imagining it could be but treating it as such at the moment I think is entirely appropriate," he said.
Up to now, the world has been slow to react to each coronavirus curveball. This time an early warning from South Africa and Botswana might have offered an important head start. “It's hard to know: Have we just simply caught up to the reality and now the world is reacting with the appropriate speed as variants emerge?" asked Dr.
Jacob Lemieux, who monitors variants for a research collaboration led by Harvard Medical School. WHY THE WORRY? Omicron raised alarm because of its sheer number of mutations, more than prior variants had.