When will we see a new COVID-19 variant?

Is a brand new coronavirus variant on the best way? Specialists mentioned one other COVID-19 variant would possibly seem.

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One other new COVID-19 variant might arrive within the subsequent three to 4 months, based on a Florida physician.

What’s taking place: Scientists are watching COVID-19 tendencies to find out when a brand new coronavirus variant might arrive.

• The subsequent new COVID-19 variant might arrive within the subsequent three to 4 months, Dr. James Taylor, a medical physician, advised WINK Information, a neighborhood information station in southwestern Florida.

Why this issues: COVID-19 case numbers are slowly dipping down, an indication that the omicron variant is starting to return down from its peak. One other new variant might, as soon as once more, delay the return to regular.

Sure, however: “I’m an optimist. I believe issues are going to proceed to get higher. I believe our immune system as a society goes to get stronger and stronger, and this virus goes to get weaker and weaker. And as we see new variants type, they'll get shorter in length and shorter in depth,” Taylor advised WINK Information.

The larger image: Specialists just lately advised The Guardian it’s not possible to find out what the subsequent COVID-19 variant shall be like. It may very well be extra transmissible, or it may very well be extra lethal.

“There shall be extra variants after omicron and if they're extra transmissible they'll dominate. As well as, they might trigger totally different patterns of sickness, in different phrases they might transform extra deadly or have extra long-term penalties,” David Nabarro, a particular envoy on COVID-19 for the World Well being Group, advised The Guardian.