I have been seeing projections that the winter wave of Covid will not be as bad as other years. I tend to agree with this as XEC is not a massive change in variants like we saw last year around the holidays with JN.1. However, I feel this could also be bad news for the summer months when we yet again see another large summer wave next year. If we have a smaller winter wave there would be more time for immunity to Wayne by the time we get to next summer. We will also be over do for a stronger variant that would drive cases up.
Here is one projection I just saw.
https://x.com/jlerollblues/status/1863414684117856586