Covid-19 variants may not evolve to be less dangerous, says Neil Ferguson
by Ian Sample and Heather Stewart from on (#5SJ4Q)
Senior UK scientist says extent of threat posed by Omicron will not be clear until end of year
People should not assume that Covid will evolve to become a milder disease, a senior scientist has warned, adding that the threat posed by the Omicron coronavirus variant will not be clear until the end of December.
Prof Neil Ferguson, head of the disease outbreak analysis and modelling group at Imperial College London, told MPs on Wednesday that while evolution would drive Covid to spread more easily the virus might not become less dangerous.
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