Antigenic evolution will lead to new #SARS-CoV-2 #variants with unpredictable severity | Nature Reviews Microbiology
▻https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00722-z
The comparatively milder infections with the Omicron variant and higher levels of population immunity have raised hopes for a weakening of the pandemic. We argue that the lower severity of Omicron is a coincidence and that ongoing rapid antigenic evolution is likely to produce new variants that may escape immunity and be more severe.