>Also, prior to omicron, some countries (Vietnam, China are the two I know of) did manage to completely stop COVID with targeted lockdowns and quarantines. Iro

>Also, prior to omicron, some countries (Vietnam, China are the two I know of) did manage to completely stop COVID with targeted lockdowns and quarantines. Ironically Omicron was exactly one such "cryptic lineage" that effectively descended from alpha and incubated in a presumed immuno-compromised and/or AIDS patient in South Africa while delta was already dominant. So any potential for global elimination was already foiled by exactly the sort of thing discussed in the article.