Covid Pandemic is Not Over

Bill Gates warned on Sunday that the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, saying there could still be a variant that is “even more transmissive and even more fatal”.

“We haven’t even seen the worst of it,” he said in an interview.

While not wanting to be a “voice of doom and gloom”, the risk of a more virulent variant emerging is “way above 5%”, the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist told the Financial Times.

Two new strains of COVID that appear to be more transmissible than even “stealth Omicron,” and that have the ability to evade antibodies from vaccination and prior infection, have arrived in the U.S.—and they could mean a new wave is coming.