Posted on 02/03/2021 5:07:23 AM PST by Kaslin
Two straight weeks of good news: COVID-19 cases are declining, hospitalizations are down and the daily pace of vaccinations is on the rise nationwide. What's not to celebrate?
Yet, the nation's leading infectious disease experts are warning us that the situation is dire because new, more dangerous strains of the virus threaten the success of the U.S. vaccination effort. They caution we're in a race to vaccinate before the virus becomes vaccine-resistant.
Message to the Biden administration: The public doesn't want to see any more presidential press conferences announcing Climate Day, racial Equity Day, Immigration Reform Day, or any other themes. Every day needs to be vaccination day. The urgency needs to be translated into action.
A variant dubbed B.1.1.7 appeared in the U.K. in September. It's at least 50 percent more contagious than original COVID-19, and forced the entire British nation into lockdown. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predict it will be the dominant strain here by March.
A new strain from South Africa blasts right through the antibody drugs used to treat former President Donald Trump, and it may also resist some vaccines. An especially lethal Brazilian strain is producing carnage in the Amazon region, even causing serious illness in young people.
The threat from these new strains "changes everything," warns Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine, including the vaccine timetable.
Biden's goal is the end of summer, but that's too late, says Hotez, explaining "we're going to have to figure out a way to vaccinate the American people by late spring. That's a tall order."
Hotez admits that "to get there we need a rate of immunization two or three times higher" than Biden's plan. Most experts agree. Jennifer Nuzzo of Johns Hopkins says, "We are in a race against time." Dr. Ashish Jha from Brown University insists that "there is zero justification for not vaccinating around the clock. We are in a race against the variants."
Biden claims his administration is waging "war" against the virus. Don't believe it. He's making open borders a higher priority. That's deadly. Mexico is overwhelmed by COVID-19.
Mexican farm workers cross the border, decline to be tested, and spread the infection along the border towns, The New York Times reports. Yuma County, Arizona, where migrants harvest lettuce, has the highest infection rate in the U.S.
Biden has put tight restrictions on international air travel, while halting the "Remain in Mexico" program and border wall construction. Air travelers must test negative before embarking, quarantine on arrival and test negative again. But what's the point, if people from dozens of countries walk through Mexico and enter the U.S. with none of those restrictions?
As for getting vaccine shots into people's arms, Biden has instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help 11 states so far set up and operate vaccination sites. He needs to expand this effort.
Recently, Pfizer failed to deliver doses as promised, slowing the pace of vaccinations in many places including New York City. A shortage of raw materials was partly to blame. That's a lesson for the future. America needs a medical supply chain with active ingredients made in the U.S.
The U.S. is also pitifully behind in identifying germ threats before they become widespread. Many countries routinely sample positive COVID-19 tests for unusual mutations. The U.K. samples 10 percent of its tests. The U.S. shockingly samples less than 1%, far less than any other developed country.
The Trump administration called on the CDC to boost surveillance testing last spring, and the Biden administration should make it a priority. Surveillance testing is vital to identify future germ threats or even a biological attack.
The experts warn that Biden has a half-year window to vaccinate and conquer the pandemic. Our return to normal life depends on it. Yet, instead of focusing on this one urgent mission, as he promised before he was elected, Biden is rolling out the left's wish list. Our lives be damned.
It states that “Betsy” is the author, but it should be “Karen”, no?...
I don’t think Biden can tie his own shoes. Whoever is pulling his strings is ignoring the mutations.
Great! Genetic Mutations are never beneficial. It’s a sign The virus is dying out. Don’t believe the hype!
Because they are coming from somewhere that none of these crooks knows and they are in panic.
Whoever is pulling his strings welcomes the mutations.
She was educated as a historian but has morphed into a political consultant and a pseudo-expert on “health care issues.” She seems to spend most of her time these days writing stupid articles like this that are riddled with fear-mongering gibberish.
He is ignoring it all. The plan is Trumps and like everything else he uses other people’s things to claim his own. He never had a plan. Also, where is my check.
Biden Is Ignoring Virus Mutations>
Biden is a virus mutation.
A liberal fascist mutation of a former Blue Dog Democrat.
And you need to understand that they will prolong the pandemic as long as they can while creating theater that convinces the opposite.
Damn right he is ignoring mutations of the virus, somly because it will take so much longer to get out of the pandemic and the burgeoning socio-economic coontrols they want to maintain on us.
Tale a look at Montana, Florida, and other Red States who have handled the pandemic without dracoian lock down policies. Biden wants them undone. And this is one way he can do ot, igmnore the mutatiing virus itself\, so the federal assistance to states will not address it.
If you think them incapable of doing such a thing, I bid you look at what Cuomo has done to New York state for reasons of Anti-Trump poliitic al expediency.He killed thousands.
Think about it.
President Trump had thousands of empty beds created at the Javitts Center and in a Hospital ship-docked in NYC harbor.
Cuomo AND De Blasio refused to use them. They would give Trump imagery of success.
Yet Cuomo chose not have those beds used and mandated that Covid infected elderly be sent to nursing homes to kill them off.
Both Cuomo and De Basio should be wearing orange suits and frog marched to the showers twice a day to keep them clean
pending their executions for treason and sedition, not to mention mass murder. They are guilty of genocide.
Thank you for the info.
Oh, and we’re all going to die.
“It states that “Betsy” is the author, but it should be “Karen”, no?...”
Okay, roll out to us your evidence and expertise that nullifies what she writes. Or is your solution to the virus to just fight it with snot?
She was spot on about Obamacare.
Viruses mutate and circle the globe forever in one form or another.
My advice to you is find your spine.
This nitwit is apparently envisioning a scenario where Americans must get vaccinated every 3-4 weeks to protect against every strain of every virus mutation that comes into the country.
It didn’t take a genius — or even someone with an IQ over 100 — to see that ObamaCare was going to be a disaster.
Take HCQ+zinc twice daily w vitamin C & D3 as prophylaxis. Have done this since April, multiple exposures, and not even a cold. It works. The Zelenko Protocol. I’ve got over a dozen family on this w same results. If I get sick, I add azythromycin
Flu mutates yearly, needs a new barely effective vaccine. Wonder when the A-Holes plan to tell the idiots it will be a yearly vaccine just like the flu?
But she had more ***** than a lot of pols who went along. And still do.
In any case, she’s not saying anything that’s untrue.
If anything, I think she’s being a little too safe in not wanting to rock the boat when the people manning the tiller ought to be made to walk the plank.
Come on, Betsy. Go whole hog. Just tell people to responsible for their own health and safety and Deep State to go bleep itself.
“”the nation’s leading infectious disease experts are warning us that the situation is dire””
Is that 20 of the experts or 50 of them or 100 or them? Which expert do we believe?
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