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This word salad is bad even by tabloid standards.

"The finding came as a shock to the researchers, who hypothesized that strains of Covid-19 will become less virulent and infectious over time judging by the relative mildness of omicron compared to previous variants."

To quote Robert Fripp "Bollocks!" That a single immune compromised individual could brew up potentially more virulent bugs isn't remotely a surprise to anyone, and this "journalist" manages to conflate that with the expected population-wide decrease in virulence over time that is the observable trajectory of every known viral respiratory pathogen. These two things are different, and not in the least in conflict.

Then she manages to segue to China's current troubles, brought about in large part it would seem by their insane "zero covid" strategy. Let's see where she goes with this, hmm....

In China, the daily case rate began to shoot upwards one month ago and this weekend hit 39,791 — nine in 10 of which were asymptomatic, according to data from the National Health Commission. The more Covid is permitted to spread, the more it can replicate and mutate.

Dr Simon Clarke, a microbiologist based at the University of Reading, told MailOnline: 'Every single Covid infection presents the virus with an opportunity to change its characteristics.
'The idea that this only leads to decreased lethality is simply wrong; having effective population-wide immunity seems to have had a much more substantial protective effect, but compared to the vaccines used here it seems that China's is less effective, which might be contributing to their problem.

Oh, well, is the Daily Mail finally coming out against lockdowns then? No, of course not

The team’s findings do not bode well for the global response to the ongoing public health issue.

And here it is:

The manuscript, published last week, does not indicate that the US must revert back to blanket mitigation measures such as compulsory masking.

But it bolsters government warnings that the pandemic remains a major public health issue.

This is more than mere sloppy journalisming. It's the most recent example of the press' unending efforts to advance the current regime's party line without the slightest hat-tip to objective reality.