Posted on 04/25/2020 8:44:11 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The coronavirus would be reduced to easily extinguished “embers” by the time next fall’s influenza season strikes, President Trump said at Wednesday’s briefing of the White House task force, even as his top health experts continued to offer a decidedly more guarded outlook.
“We will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health, at the same briefing some minutes later. Fauci’s blunt style has sometimes annoyed Trump and often thrilled a public hungry for accurate information. He added that preparations made now would likely mitigate the impact of the virus come autumn.
Both men were speaking in the context of comments made the day before by Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the Washington Post. He told the newspaper that not only was the coronavirus likely to return in the fall, but that its effect would be compounded by the flu.
“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” Redfield told the Washington Post. He added later that the nation was bound to face “the flu epidemic and the coronavirus epidemic at the same time.”
That would put enormous strain on hospitals and possibly lead to widespread shutdowns of the kind that have marked the first months of 2020.
A White House plainly irritated by Redfield took the press to task. On Wednesday afternoon, new White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a Fox News interview that “the mainstream media” had taken Redfield’s comments “out of context.” She argued that he had merely been advising Americans to receive their annual flu vaccinations.
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For the record, Fauci’s statement was just a matter of fact - with the virus around the globe, it will still exist in the Fall-—Trump’s statement was that he thinks it will be so small as to be easily controllable and Fauci and Birx are both making similar statements.
Why wouldn’t it come back.
Very little of the population has been exposed. You need 80-90% with antibodies for true protection. There is no vaccine. The population has no immunity.
Only someone who has no understanding of how the immune system works would walk around saying it will go away.
How we react to it? That’s a different story.
But it’s going to be around for a long, long time.
On this, I agree with Fauci. He’s purposely set the stage for it to reappear by turning all of us into fragile beings through the lockdown. If we had been free to live our lives, there would be immunity throughout the population.
Fauci: “We will have coronavirus in the fall. I am convinced of that,” And that’s just oh so convenient considering what else happens this coming fall.
“There’s a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through,” Redfield told the Washington Post.
That is false, Redfield did not say that. He addressed it at a presser himself.
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