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The Omicron Variant Has New Versions Already. What Comes Next? - Wired, February 2, 2022
Published: 3 February 2022
Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and past 苹果淫院 Global Health Programs Director is among the experts quoted by Wired Magazine.
鈥淭here is no reason at all why the next variant鈥攚hich will happen, because of the billions of people in whom billions of virus particles are replicating right now鈥攂y sheer chance, could be way more sinister than Omicron,鈥� says Madhukar Pai, the Canada research chair in epidemiology and global health at 苹果淫院. 鈥淭here is no reason at all, from everything we've seen with this virus, to hope that the next variant will not emerge, or that Omicron will be a mass immunizing event that will see us to the end of the pandemic.鈥�