According to a prominent government official, the Omicron strain of Covid-19 is “nearly unstoppable” and will soon infect everyone. Booster vaccine doses, he noted, will not stop the virus’s rapid spread. “It doesn’t matter.” The infection will take place. “Regardless of this, it has happened all throughout the world,” he stated of the booster doses.
He stressed that Covid is “no longer a frightening disease” because the new strain is milder and causes far less hospitalisation, and that it is a disease that can be managed. “We’re dealing with a whole different virus.” As you all know, Omicron is considerably milder than Delta, and it’s basically unstoppable,” said Dr. Jaiprakash Muliyil, epidemiologist and chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Epidemiology at the Indian Council of Medical Research.
He said that natural immunity from infection may last a lifetime, which is why India hasn’t been as adversely affected as many other nations. He also claimed that 85 percent of the country was already sick when vaccines were introduced, so the initial shot was effectively a booster dose.
Dr. Muliyil stated that booster doses have not been recommended by any medical body and that they will not stop the epidemic’s natural progression. He argued the same against testing asymptomatic close contacts of Covid patients, claiming that because the virus doubles infection in just two days, the infected person has already distributed it to a huge number of others before the test finds it. “As a result, even when you take an exam, you are far behind. It isn’t going to make a difference in the way the epidemic progresses “he stated
