Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has stated that it is very early to say if Omicron will lead to an end to the Covid-19 pandemic and that there may be another variant with a similar vaccine escaping potential.
According to the reports, Fauci stated that natural vaccination or immunity via the previous infection, might not be as effective as some belief. Like Omicron, there is potential for a new variant to emerge in the future that can evade the natural immunity provided by infection from the new strain.
“It is an open question as to whether or not Omicron is going to be the live virus vaccination that everyone is hoping for because you have such a great deal of variability with new variants emerging. I would hope that that’s the case,” he said, “but that would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response, Says Fauci
Fauci further added that the first is the truly pandemic phase, where the whole world is really very negatively impacted, followed by deceleration, control, elimination and eradication. He said that smallpox is the only infectious human disease that has ever been eradicated, but “that’s not going to happen with this virus. However, the virus can become endemic like rhinovirus and some upper respiratory infections. It can happen once countries reach the “control” phase when the virus becomes a non-disruptive presence.
