Posted on 02/19/2021 10:44:09 AM PST by conservative98
A Johns Hopkins doctor believes that Covid-19 will be “mostly gone” two months from now.
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Dr. Marty Makary — a surgeon and a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health — argues that there are actually many more than the 28 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S., possibly as much as 6.5 times more than that number. Between that group, and the roughly 15 percent of the country which has already received one dose of the vaccine, Makary argues that much of the nation is already protected from the virus.
“There is reason to think the country is racing toward an extremely low level of infection,” Makary wrote. “As more people have been infected, most of whom have mild or no symptoms, there are fewer Americans left to be infected. At the current trajectory, I expect Covid will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life.”
Makary appeared on Fox News, Friday, to expand on his column — claiming that the U.S. has been over-reliant on antibody tests as a gauge to determine who has had the virus.
“There’s a 76 percent reduction in daily cases over the last six weeks,” Makary said. “You, as a scientist, have to ask why. And we cannot explain that by vaccinated immunity. We can’t explain it by a sudden change in behavior. It’s natural immunity, and it’s now over 50 percent of the population.”
The doctor acknowledged the reluctance of many scientists to publicly acknowledge his conclusions, and chalked it up to public health experts not wanting Americans to get complacent in their mitigation efforts, and possibly not take the vaccines.
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The rest of this nonsense is because people tasted power and they LOVED it.
Of what year?
Funny how that worked...
Haven’t we heard that before? Three weeks and we’ll all be good.
Victor Davis Hanson makes this exact point in his latest “Classicist” podcast.
He also delivers a wonderful eulogy for Rush.
COVID-19 may be gone but there will still be 1 -2 - 3 mask required and social distancing until America is completely destroyed (won’t be long now) and then things will be ok.
Great news!
the only reason COVID is still here is something that happened in the first week of November
What does this guy know? All must heed the word of the Most High, Keeper of All Knowledge, Expert of Experts, God King Emperor Fauci.
No!
Don’t say that!
You can’t!
It’s NOT FAIR!
Thanks. I didn't realize VDH had a podcast. I assume he delivered that eulogy for Rush yesterday or today? I will look it up...
It doesn’t matter; Dems want to continue to keep in control.
The International Guessing Game continues, unabated!
If the current 7 day average trend continues he’s right. Cases are dropping like a stone. I can’t wait to see the stats in about two-three weeks.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
gone by April....
Fauci: Yes, somewhat alleviated by April, 2023. Maybe.
Johns Hopkins Doctor = left wing nut job
At Casa Blanca in DC:
“We’ll always have Covid....”
FauXi and Xi (now with NEW TAXPAYER MONEY from CCP-Biden)
have more NOVEL viruses in the pipeline.
some will kill only the vaccinated,
giving FauXi royalties AND kickbacks from WHO/GateXi.
Humans WW are f’ked because they did NOTHING
when FauXi, CDC, and Xi made and released the first.
Rule 1: No accountability means more is coming.
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