Immunologist Paul Offit: “Vaccines will also protect us from Omicron. The virus will become like a cold but it will take years”

“Probably the Sars-CoV-2 will become harmless like a cold, but it will take at least 10 years”: is the opinion of a luminary in the field of immunology and virology, Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine and external member of the FDA.

Professor Offit, Andrew Pollard of the Oxford Vaccine Center said he was optimistic about the impact of the Omicron variant yesterday.