Omicron shows how unpredictable the COVID-19 pandemic continues to be | 7.30

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The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has shown how unpredictable this pandemic continues to be. In just six weeks, Omicron has gone from nothing to maybe as many as a million infections a week in Australia if estimates about underdiagnosis are correct. Norman Swan reports.

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