Officials around the world have expressed hope that omicron’s high transmissibility and relative lack of severity would help the transition of covid-19 into a more manageable endemic disease. ″We may be on the eve of a watershed, the transition from a pandemic phase to an endemic phase,” Alain Berset, the Swiss interior minister, told reporters on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg. He couched his remarks, though, saying it was too early to commit to a return to normalcy. “The situation remains difficult to predict,” he said. “We don’t know yet.”
