Kamala Harris: "We didn’t see Delta coming, we didn’t see Omicron coming"

We didn’t see Delta coming. I think most scientists did not — upon whose advice and direction we have relied — didn’t see Delta coming.  We didn’t see Omicron coming.  And that’s the nature of what this, this awful virus has been, which as it turns out, has mutations and variants.

~ Vice President Kamala Harris, "Kamala Harris, in interview, says administration did not anticipate Omicron variant," Los Angeles Times, December 17, 2021