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Omicron “is likely to have important consequences for the future of the pandemic,” William Hanage, an infectious diseases researcher, writes in a guest essay. “By infecting large numbers of people quickly, it’s also generating immunity quickly.”https://t.co/3Sb0dUCaQu

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 19, 2022

奥密克戎很容易传播，而且传播得很快。事实上，它传播得如此之快，以至于等你看到这篇文章时，你所在社区的病例数很可能已经达到峰值。

尽管一些国家的病例数正在迅速下降，但尚不清楚其他国家激增的奥密克戎病例数是否能顺利下降。即使在最初的高峰或平稳期之后，有些地方的病例数可能会继续