It’s too soon to know whether the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus will bring the COVID-19 pandemic to an end, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Monday. “It’s an open question as to whether or not Omicron is going to be the live virus vaccination everyone is hoping for,” Fauci said via videoconference at the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda virtual event on Monday. “Because you have such a great deal of variability with new variants emerging,” he said. Researchers and health experts are hopeful that the Omicron variant, while highly transmissible, is less severe, and poses milder symptoms in infected people, compared with other strains such as the Delta variant. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, cast doubt that the variant spells the endgame for the pandemic. “I would hope that that’s the case. But that would only be the case if we don’t …