Dr. Marty Makary Dismisses Christmas Omicron Hysteria: ‘No Need to Do Anything Different’

Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told Fox News Thursday that people should continue to live their lives as normal despite rising fears of the Omicron variant.

Asked about the new variant, Makary told host Martha MacCallum on The Story that he sees no cause for concern as the country heads into winter.

Makary said, “Well, I would tell people to feel good about your immune level of protection. People need the booster unless they had Covid in the past already. That functions as a vaccine dose. If you’ve had the J&J dose, one was probably not the right number and you would need a second dose if you want good immune protection.”

He added, “For everybody else, I would say there’s no need to do anything different. We’re getting new data now on Omicron, and it appears to be more mild. It will be the dominant virus Covid strain in the United States probably by February. I’m not sure that is something to worry about, since it will displace probably a more dangerous virus that is Delta.”

Makary said he refers to Omicron as the “omicold,” adding that “we need to think about it in terms of a common cold virus like rhino virus.” He also opined that Covid-19 will be “ubiquitous,” and further claimed colleges and universities do not need to close down while he simultaneously questioned the need for booster shots for young people.

Makary said:

There’s no data to support boosters in young people. If anything, we got another piece of data just in the last few days from Oxford showing that boosters can, and vaccines can, cause myocarditis at a rate higher than the virus itself. There’s will be unintended harm to a booster discriminant at colleges and universities. Also, we’ve got to look at that University of Hong Kong study you mentioned at the beginning of the segment. It showed that the infectivity rate of lung tissue, the deep respiratory tissue, which is where severe disease is caused, that rate is about 10 percent of what Delta is.

MacCallum concluded that the virus is “dumbing down” to further its spread, and in doing so is doing less damage to the lungs of those who contract it, to which Makary agreed.

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