WASHINGTON — Contracting the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus is less likely to lead to severe illness than other variants, like Delta, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to President Biden, said at a briefing of the White House pandemic response team on Tuesday. He cautioned, however, that much about the variant is not yet certain.
“It appears that with the cases that we have seen, we are not seeing a very severe profile of disease. In fact, it might be — and I underscore ‘might be’ — less severe,” Fauci said, referring to epidemiological reports from South Africa, where some of the first cases of Omicron were
