White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci admitted on Tuesday that “just about everybody” will eventually be infected with the Omicron variant and that it is pretty much unavoidable, although he contends vaccines and boosters will lessen the effects of the virus.

“Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will, ultimately, find just about everybody,” Fauci remarked during a “fireside chat” with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“Those who have been vaccinated and vaccinated and boosted would get exposed. Some, maybe a lot of them, will get infected but will very likely, with some exceptions, do reasonably well in the sense of not having hospitalization and death,” he contended.