Humanity as a whole will likely take years to get access to this vaccine anyway.
That said, put the fear mongering that the news media’s feeding aside. None of the recommendations have changed. The vaccine is still safe and effective. Areas with high transmission will spread more. This vaccine actually cures the SARS-Cov-1 it’s THAT covered. The spike protein that is being targeted hasn’t sufficiently changed enough for “Omicron” to set it back to square one.
Also, South Africa isn’t necessarily where Omicron started from, they just have one of the best networks for tracking and sequencing virus genomes since they do a lot of work with AIDS and other emergent viruses. They’re just the ones that sequenced it first. By the time they had sequenced and shared their procedures it was already located in at least 20 countries.
