With Omicron Coronavirus Strain Severe Form of COVID-19 May Take Longer To Develop

A large number of mutations of the new Omicron coronavirus strain may result in the fact that a severe form of the disease with this type of virus may take longer to develop compared with the Delta strain, which will provide the organism with more time to develop immunity, Director of the Moscow-based Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, the Sputnik V developer, Alexander Gintsburg told Russia-State News Agency TASS. “More [mutations] does not mean [it is] worse. It may particularly have an effect, I hope very much that it will weaken its syncytium formation ability, the speed of…