Half of Europe will have Covid in the next 6-8 weeks

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The WHO predicts it:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59948920

After that waning infections and improvements. So if you are CEV or live with CEV extra, extra precautions for a limited period of time maybe?

The main problem will be hospital's ability to cope.

@TheYearOfSmallThings

Yep, it's not "will be infected" it is "will have been infected". It is an estimated cumulative figure including all past infections.

It says:

"Covid: Half of Europe to be infected with Omicron within weeks - WHO"

to be means in the future not in the past.

@DisappearingGirl

The article seems really unclear as to which it means!

"half of Europe will have been infected with the Omicron variant of Covid-19 within six to eight weeks"

"more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks"

Yep, but it does clearly state in the next 6 to 8 weeks:

"The World Health Organization has warned that half of Europe will have caught the Omicron Covid variant within the next six to eight weeks."

The point of sharing was very high now and next month or so and then potentially waning.