Omicron: Professor says 'it's going to hit everybody'

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A microbiologist said that the worst is yet to come as she made an ominous prediction about what is lying in wait for Britain, with the new Omicron COVID-19 variant about to “hit everybody” although she reassured that it is not as severe as Alpha. Professor Sally Jane Cutler also predicted that, while the Government enforced the closing of businesses during the first lockdowns, this time it could be the owners themselves who may be left with no choice but to shut places and call off events. This is due to the rising infections among staff members and a subsequent lack of personnel that will ensue.

The number of infections keeps increasing twofold quotidianly and yesterday Britain recorded its highest number of cases in a single day as 78,610 new infections were reported.

In a downbeat assessment on LBC, Ms Cutler looked glum as she refused to “read too much” into the positive news coming from South Africa, where Omicron cases are reportedly declining and the virus itself is deemed milder than first thought.

She said: “I think it’s really difficult to read too much into that at this point in time. 

“It’s gonna hit everybody.

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“So, starting levels you’re gonna see absentees there because of people that have got infected.

“I have also seen sort of a lot of theatre productions that are not being closed but they are having to close because basically half the casts are sick are off with Omicron.

“So, they can’t let the show go on because they just haven’t got sufficient people there to actually deliver.

“So we’re going to see a lot of things that are going to naturally be reduced because of sicknesses.”

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Ms Cutler then told LBC presenter Swarbrick that she is fearing the worst after researchers from a university in Bloomsbury released details that the new Omicron disease could kill up to 75,000 people in the next four months.

Omicron cases have leaped from 5,346 to 10,017 in a single day as Covid cases in general soared to a record high, with 10,000 more people infected than in January’s peak.

She said: “What I am really alarmed about actually is some of the mathematical modelling predictions that came out over the weekend from the London School of Hygiene and tropical medicine and there they were saying between 25,000 and 75,000 deaths.

“It’s going up to maybe about April in time.

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“That’s what they are predicting.”

Despite the harrowing predictions from the renowned Central London university, Ms Cutler estimated that the Omicron variant is going to cause far fewer casualties than the first Alpha variant.

And a reason for that is that the UK now has the tools to deal with Omicron such as the booster jab and from the outset of the outbreak.

On top of that, unlike 18 months ago, she said that everyone now possesses the experience and knowledge to come to terms with the distressing experience.

She concluded: “Alpha translated a lot more into serious consequences because we were very early on in the rollout.

“And basically you had a totally naïve population and very, very little protection.

“The situation we saw then was sort of quite severe.”

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