Bill Gates: "The end in 2022"

He expressed hope that the critical phase of the COVID pandemic would end next year.
"It would be foolish to make a different prediction, I believe that the acute phase of the pandemic will end sometime in 2022," Gates said on the Gates Notes personal blog.
U.S. billionaire said that the end of the pandemic is not as close as he hoped because of the delta strain and the problem of fully vaccinating people.
He has no doubt that the omicron strain is worrying, but that with the development of vaccines and anti-covid drugs, he believes that COVID will become an endemic disease in 2022.
"The world is better prepared to fight potentially bad strains, best since the outburst of the pandemic. We are in a much better position to modify vaccines, if necessary," Gates said.