Posted on 02/09/2021 5:59:40 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Top members of Biden’s COVID response team are warning internally that the U.S. may not reach herd immunity until Thanksgiving or even the start of winter—months later than originally calculated—according to two senior administration officials.
In an interview with CBS News this week, President Joe Biden hinted at some of these concerns, saying it would be “very difficult” to reach herd immunity—a population-wide resistance to the virus—“much before the end of the summer” with the current daily rate of approximately 1.3 million vaccine doses. Other top officials working on the federal government’s COVID-19 response say the are uneasy about vaccine supply long term and the impact on herd immunity, and have begun to explore ways to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity, potentially through new partnerships with outside pharmaceutical firms.
Beyond supply issues, though, top health officials say they are increasingly worried about the United Kingdom and South African COVID-19 variants, the likelihood that more variants will emerge in the coming months, and the possibility that those variants will evade the vaccines. There is some evidence to suggest that both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines protect against the B117 United Kingdom variant, though a recent study shows a new mutation could make the vaccines less effective. Data gathered by the Novavax and Johnson and Johnson clinical trials in South Africa suggest their vaccines are less effective against the variant spreading rapidly in the country. And South Africa recently said it was halting the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine because evidence from clinical trials suggested the vaccine did not work well against the variant.
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So, I guess that means the vaccine doesn’t work
By Thanksgiving, it will no longer be a herd. It will be a flock of turkeys.
Wearing 17 masks helps.
This is just killing him.
No groping and hair sniffing until Turkey Day?
The infectious disease “experts” have been proven to be NOT.
By then they will be saying we should all be socially distancing and wearing masks for a mutated form of covid. They don’t plan on ever letting this go.
Still waiting...
So not two weeks, but 1 year and 8 months.
That’s just a small error.
It’s good to know they think of us as a herd.
They treat us that way.
The lockdowns certainly didn’t work either.
If anything they may have made things worse.
When next Thanksgiving rolls around they will move the goalposts again.
He’s lying.
They are never going to end the lockdown until we have all been exterminated.
Thanksgiving of what year?
Of course they don’t - they want us to stay locked down forever. Just another year.
We had Spanish Flu of 1918 reach herd immunity, without vaccines in 18 months.
That’s Labor Day(ish) of this year and that’s WITHOUT any vaccines.
I don’t know about you all - but my state’s infection rate has dropped by almost 70% in the last 3 weeks. (ooohhh... now that New Years Eve if over people are social distancing again!) No numbnuts - the vaccines have been distributed to the most vulnerable - medical staff and the elderly. The current estimates are that about 10% of the population has knowingly had covid and 10% of the population is vaccinated. Given the spread of it - the rough estimates are that an additional 20% of people have probably had asymptomatic covid - putting us to around 40% of the population has had it - IE 10% away from Herd Immunity AS ITS SCIENTIFICALLY DEFINED (that was, before covid was politicized)
the dog and pony show continues.
I don’t know how they top screwing the pooch.
At this point they are beating a dead horse.
This isn’t Spanish Flu. This isn’t Ebola.
They have to bring Covid back every two years before voting
This isn’t even AIDS.
How’s that AIDS vaccine coming, Fauci?
Whatever happened to the predicted big surge in heterosexual AIDS?
herd immunity happened shortly after new years day. the biden gestapo is just afraid that the crisis is going to go to waste.
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