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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Three masks on the butt including pants and underwear or on top of all that?
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Over on even days and under on odd.
Weekend at bidens
Next time anyone actually sees him he’ll have sunglasses on and be slumped in a chair.
I missed the butt memo. I’m out.
I am trying to plan so I need to know.
The Day before
The Day of
The Day after
Oh, sure.
Another year of having our traditional holidays and celebrations being canceled.
They are deliberately trying to destroy and erase from our memories and lives everything that gives us identity and unity in this country. Everything traditional and meaningful.
They want to replace it with a new normal, a scrubbed history and traditions that they have replaced them with.
Screw that.
Gas and “particles” will still escape. They always doooooo
But, but Joe Biden has a plan and Orange Man bad....
The lockdown will end when we, the people, say it will end
And even if the “experts” say we have herd immunity we mist stay locked down, masked, and cowering in our beds waiting for Biden to save us.
San Francisco should be pretty much bled out by then.
Where is that “Like” button? /s
What? What happened with curing covid in the first 100 days?
What? What happened with curing covid in the first 100 days?
They fully plan to drag this on for years - probably forever.
exactly. a scared populace is easier to control.
The eftists I know were all excited when Biden won. Yay, he has a plan I can go to my favorite concerts, etc. this year! I don’t see any large events happening until MAYBE late spring 2022, if they don’t keep finding new strains to panic people over.
Dems want mail in voting forever but especially the next
midterms election. So they’ll keep dragging this out to justify that.
No S*%t! All the "experts" and leftists saying if we just stay locked down and hide inside for 15, er, 30, er, 45 days we can magically stop this virus. It's a virus, it will spread, it will mutate, that's what they have done forever and will continue to do until the sun blows up.
So called “herd immunity” provides no actual immunity. It is merely a lack of exposure.
Noooooooo
The elastic rubber loops that go around your ear will find their way into the ocean and form a giant floating blob right beside the plastic straw floating blob
Yup, I think they will be in for a big disappointment.
No sympathy from me.
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