“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’s false.
Unfortunately, probably not
I dont know who is advising Trump but this is a biological weapon, not a natural disease, and it was designed to fight fiercely to spread itself, infect, batter down or defeat the human immune system, debilitate, then hide in various parts of the body at undetectable levels -
Then reemerge in cycle after cycle
The next big wave in the fall will be on people being “ reinfected’ plus all the hosts who are now self-isolating - and the virus may even be more lethal for having been artificially denied the opportunity to mutate by a wider spread because of the lock down policy. Now add in the regular cycle of some types of influenza at the same time - people perhaps being infected by both
It is going to be bad
Thats why we need to get more people out by summer, so the cases of covid infection may be less intense and severe due to temp and humidity reducing fomites and people getting sun and exercise
Our best hope is not a vaccine ( by the same experts who have failed to produce an hiv vaccine in 30 years of work) but treatments, coupled with eventual weakening of the pathogen...maybe