Covid Won't be Eradicated, Live with It, Says Harvard Prof, Warns 'Prolonged Effects' of Omicron in India
News 18Covid-19 will become endemic and people will start to live with some level of the virus as it can’t be eradicated, said Harvard immunologist Dr Shiv Pillai, adding that vaccinations, along with drugs, will make things betters and change things a lot. As Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium has already said that Omicron has reached in community, Dr Pillai said that BA.2 which is the second version of Omicron is slightly different that prolong the wave in India. On Omicron being in community transmission stage in India, Dr Pillai said, “In India, there is a variant of Omicron BA.2 that’s also spreading, it is different from Omicron. Because if it mutates that then it can’t function, right.” Further, Dr Pillai mentioned that immunity from BA.1 first Omicron might give us some immunity against the second one BA.2.