Beyond Covid Worries

Seth Berkley, chief executive officer of Gavi Alliance, on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland earlier this year.

Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg

Hi, it’s Naomi in Berlin. Omicron just tap-danced across my immune system for the second time this year, which made good fodder for a chat with one of the world’s public-health leaders. But first…

Here in Germany, it’s a fall of Covid-19 contrasts: conferences, long office days and longer club nights have returned, as has a fresh wave of infections. Everything’s back on in person, and it’s shaping up to be a winter full of viruses, whether flu, Covid or garden-variety cold.