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'Our ability to bring this outbreak to its knees, it's in our hands' | CDC Chief talks about possible end to coronavirus
wfmynews ^ | 08/22/2020 | Grace Holland

Posted on 08/24/2020 11:52:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

GREENSBORO, N.C. — There's hope that the end could be in sight.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the United States can have coronavirus under control in as little as four to 12 weeks but there's a lot we each need to do.

CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said it only works if more people start wearing masks, social distancing and washing their hands frequently.

"Our ability to bring this outbreak to its knees, it's in our hands, it's in our grasp but it is gonna require all of us," Redfield said.

Many are doing that in Greensboro with a state mask mandate in effect but some say, not enough.

"I would say out of a ten scale, a five or a six. Seriously," Gracie Maxwell said. The Radford University student visited Greensboro Saturday with friends.

"We really do need to see you know 90, 95 percent, 96 or more," Redfield said of the number of people required to break the virus' grasp.

Redfield remains cautiously optimistic about that a vaccine could come by the end of the year but some aren't convinced.

(Excerpt) Read more at wfmynews2.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdc; end; mask; virus
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1 posted on 08/24/2020 11:52:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Simple solution to the pandemic,,,,Make HCQ and Azithromycin OTC drugs so anyone who develops a cough and/or fever can go the nearest drug store and self medicate with the drugs along with Zinc Sulfate with correct dosage within 48 hours of symptoms and pandemic over.,,,,,instead of waiting a few days to get tested and 5 days for the results,,,,if over 60 years of age,,,,you’re dead.


2 posted on 08/24/2020 11:53:48 AM PDT by chopperk (L)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ANother guy who should never have been part of the Trump admin. ANd should have long been gone by now.


3 posted on 08/24/2020 11:54:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This ahole says wearing a mask is similar to wearing a seat belt? Just do it and shut up. Screw you.


4 posted on 08/24/2020 11:54:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If masks helped then why do the number of cases keep going up? Funny, they NEVER ask that question.


5 posted on 08/24/2020 11:54:51 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We’ve BEEN wearing the stupid masks and social distancing and washing hands..


6 posted on 08/24/2020 11:54:56 AM PDT by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Masks that are not part of a virus lab suit are useless.

Distancing and hand washing sound like good advice.

YMMV.


7 posted on 08/24/2020 11:56:00 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pssst. It is brought to its knees.

How’s Sweden doing, BTW? :)


8 posted on 08/24/2020 11:56:12 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Simple solution, stop listening to talking heads. Go about your daily life.


9 posted on 08/24/2020 11:57:29 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

why did he fund this Atrocity?

why does his organization of DNCmurder
DEMAND mRNA changes to human DNA instead
of simply HCQ rx?

.... because murder for the DNC is what they do.


10 posted on 08/24/2020 11:57:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cuz government doctors have been right about SOOOOOOOOO much of this since Day One...


11 posted on 08/24/2020 11:59:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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I honestly think this is just something we’re going to have to learn to live with, like the seasonal flu, colds, any other disease. Work on the vaccine, and figure out the best treatment course.


12 posted on 08/24/2020 11:59:55 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: 9YearLurker

Redfield was fired years ago as head of an Army Lab, for falsifying AIDs studies. He must be one helluva rainmaker at snaggjng grant money to have survived all these years as a govt bureaucrat and even risen to the top of the CDC ( floater?)

When the Army fired him for being an unethical liar, his deputy moved up.
Debra Birx.


13 posted on 08/24/2020 12:03:57 PM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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Here's another one...

....just 15 days to slow the spread...

FU!

Giving you 12 more weeks to "bring this outbreak to its knees", is in reality, signing on for a lifetime of masks, "social distancing" and OC hand washing.

I'm good with the old fashioned way of achieving immunity.

14 posted on 08/24/2020 12:05:27 PM PDT by skimbell
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“We really do need to see you know 90, 95 percent, 96 or more,” Redfield said of the number of people required to break the virus’ grasp.“

Those numbers for herd immunity are ludicrous. No virus can move through a population where 90% are immune.


15 posted on 08/24/2020 12:07:49 PM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Note timing: 12 weeks. Right. After. The. Election.


16 posted on 08/24/2020 12:10:48 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: skimbell

12 weeks will go buy and they’ll move the goalposts once more. “Oops, we misunderestimated again”. They ain’t letting go of their grip on power until we and/or Trump forces that to happen.


17 posted on 08/24/2020 12:11:20 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: chopperk

Bingo.


18 posted on 08/24/2020 12:11:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the United States can have coronavirus under control in as little as four to 12 weeks but there's a lot we each need to do.

”15 days to flatten the curve...”

Now it’s just “4-12 WEEKS to ‘get it under control’”, whatever that means.

Here’s what it means: we’re going to be jerked around forever. Even IF they ever say that COVID has been “beaten”, the masks, social distancing, and forfeiture of our rights and freedom will NEVER, EVER end. They’ll just throw a “new” virus at us, and keep it going.

This is all a scam and a lie. Always has been, and will continue to be as long as the media, the politicians, and the damned Karens keep it up.

19 posted on 08/24/2020 12:12:37 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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IOW the pandemic is ending abruptly. Every citizen needs to redouble their effort to obey our mandates to ensure CDC and Fauci receive full credit.


20 posted on 08/24/2020 12:14:14 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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