Most Aussies won’t even know they’ve got Omicron: Scientist gives a glimmer of hope that new strains of Covid WON’T be as bad as we head towards ‘herd immunity’

  • Leading scientist confident many Aussies soon won’t realise they have Covid-19
  • Professor Tony Blakely told The Project a ‘herd immunity’ is likely by April 2022
  • Comes despite huge case numbers in NSW and Victoria from Omicron strain 

By Andrew Prentice For Daily Mail Australia and Cameron Carpenter

Published: 19:55 GMT, 6 January 2022 | Updated: 20:27 GMT, 6 January 2022


A leading epidemiologist says most Australians won’t even know they have Covid as the country heads towards a ‘herd immunity’ scenario. 

Professor Tony Blakely, of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, told The Project it’s ‘very convincing’ that booster shots and rising case numbers would put the country in a better position to handle a new variant.

‘In three to four months time, once we’ve gone through this band-aid ripping pain, we could be in a very good resilient place,’ he said.

‘We’ll have the population largely vaccinated, including kids, we’ll have a lot of people boosted, and we’ll have somewhere between a third and two-thirds of people who will have been infected with Omicron – and most of them won’t even be aware of it,’ Professor Blakely said.

‘That whole package will make us more resilient – something like herd immunity – and more resilient to something that comes at us next. 

‘I’m hoping this will be our big wave and then after that it will just be small shudders that come through that we’ll cope with a lot more easily.’ 

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Professor Tony Blakely says Australians could become more resilient to new strains of Covid-19

Professor Tony Blakely says Australians could become more resilient to new strains of Covid-19

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