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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Which state are you from?
The goal is to keep the universal mail-in ballot scheme going until at least the 2022 midterms. Democrats have a great opportunity to add senators by hook or by crook. The GOP has to defend 23 seats.
The fake pandemic and the lockdowns are still in play until then. That’s what is happening here. It has nothing to do with so-called virus variants or the vaccine.
Is there herd immunity for the other human coronaviruses?
OC43? No
HKU1? No
NL63? No
229E? No
SARS? No
MERS? No
So why do people, especially politicians and people trying to sound smart, keep blathering on about “herd immunity” to SARS CoV 2, when there is no precedent for such a thing with any of the other, similar coronaviruses?
So many democrats cried and said Biden would fix everything. Now we see Biden has no solutions
Exactly. What’s the point of the vaccine. This is insane.
Gave up caring a while back. Some folks get and die, some folks get it and get real sick, some folks get it and never knew they had it. Natural selection.................
Yep.
That was never factual. It was meant to scare the general heterosexual population to demand money and research into AIDS , which in reality was affecting the male homosexual and the drug addicts who used needles to shoot up.
There will be no ‘herd immunity’ as long as the ‘herd’ can be kept in fear. There will always be another ‘mutation’ or ‘variant’ out there to keep the sheeple in line.
15 moar days to flatten the curve
Be prepared for the press to resurrect the Obama era excuses where expectations were always lower than their estimates and then revised even lower a couple months later.
FAUCI was behind the myth of heterosexual AIDS.
Wearing 17 masks helps.
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5 on the face
2 on top of the head
2 for the ears
2 for the hands
2 for the feet
1 on the belly button
3 on the butt
Aaaaaaaand the goalposts move again.
Three masks on the butt including pants and underwear or on top of all that?
India reported ZERO covid deaths in the past 24 hours.
Time to stop listening to Fauci and start listening to Vishnu.
15 more excuses to flatten your will.
They should make HCQ, Zinc Sulfate, Azithromycin and Ivermectin Over the Counter Drugs so people can medicate themselves, Pandemic over.
People I know in their 90s would rather go out and pass from it than die living 2 years at home watching tv.
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