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>If enough people had got their shots worldwide that would have worked. One of the theories on the origin of omicron seems to be that it evolved in animals for
by ApolloFortyNine 5y ago
>If enough people had got their shots worldwide that would have worked.
One of the theories on the origin of omicron seems to be that it evolved in animals for a while before jumping back to humans (the weirdness being that it's not evolved from Delta, and it has a number of mutations all at once). [1]
And even if it's not the origin of this variant, it could easily be the origin of a future variant (that's why they're considering it).
And it's quite unlikely we could vaccinate every animal on the planet, so this idea that if we had just gotten all our shots this variant would have never happened is pretty ridiculous.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-did-omicron-covid-variant-evolve-animals-humans-2021-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/how-did-omicron-covid-varian...
- bluGill 5y agoIf we had vaccinated soon/fast enough we could have prevented the to animal transmission in the first place
- elihu 5y agoI don't think that's a realistic expectation. If millions of people have a highly infectious disease, then it's very likely to spread to any wildlife (that aren't naturally immune) in the same general area as those infected humans. By the time the vaccines were available, Covid was basically everywhere.
- bluGill 5y agoIt is clearly impossible for supply reasons.