We failed to prevent omicron – can we stop future variants evolving?

There is a lot more that countries could be doing to reduce the risk of new coronavirus variants arising, but it won't be easy

We failed to prevent omicron – can we stop future variants evolving?
Health | Analysis 9 December 2021

By Michael Le Page

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Artist’s rendering of the delta variant of the coronavirus

Shutterstock / Fit Ztudio

We are witnessing the script that galore radical feared unfold earlier our eyes. The caller omicron variant can mostly evade anterior immunity and is spreading with alarming rapidity. And the truly atrocious quality is that determination is each crushed to deliberation much unsafe variants volition look successful the future. So is determination thing we tin bash to forestall this, oregon astatine slightest to dilatory the process?

“There is perfectly thing that tin beryllium done,” says Aris Katzourakis astatine the University …

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