CNBC: The U.S. is racing to stay ahead of new Covid strains as virus mutates, Biden health officials say
* President Joe Biden’s surgeon general pick said Sunday that the U.S. is in a race to adapt against the mutating coronavirus.
* “The virus is basically telling us that it’s going to continue to change and we’ve got to be ready for it,” Dr. Vivek Murthy told ABC News’ “This Week.”
* Dr. Anthony Fauci said last week that the Covid-19 vaccines currently on the market may not be as effective against new strains.
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s surgeon general pick said Sunday that the United States is in a race to adapt against the mutating coronavirus which has produced a number of potentially more infectious variants of Covid-19.
“The virus is basically telling us that it’s going to continue to change and we’ve got to be ready for it,” Dr. Vivek Murthy told ABC News’ “This Week.”
“We’ve got to number one, do much better genomic surveillance, so we can identify variants when they arise and that means we’ve got to double down on public health measures like masking and avoiding indoor gatherings,” Murthy, Biden’s nominee to be the nation’s next surgeon general, added.
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WNU Editor: US surgeon general nominee Dr. Vivek Murthy is saying the same thing that I have been hearing for almost a year from the WHO, almost every health expert around the world, and politicians .... "We are confronting this pandemic, and our policies will help to contain and defeat it as soon as possible."
Unfortunately.
Everyone has been wrong.
In the past year I have read a lot of books and reference material on pandemics, and from those sources and using history as my guide I have learned the following. Pandemics go away when much of the world's population has been infected, and the new strains are not resilient enough to continue the cycle.
The vaccines are definitely going to help, but they also take time, and they will not be effective in every case. Bottom line. This disease is with us for a few more years.
