“Stop this in its tracks.”
Sheesh. I’d say the CDC would lose its remaining credibility if it had any credibility left to lose.
COVID 19 is now an endemic disease. It will work its way through the population until we achieve herd immunity and/or a fully effective vaccine. Its effect on the death rate will be what it will be, but we ain’t a’gonna stop it now.
People at the CDC should not be afraid to utter the words “endemic disease.” It’s out there. We will live with it. A few people will die from it.
The Reproduction Number, Ro , is a measure of how infectious a pathogen is. The higher the number , the more infectious it is.
The reproduction number for the Wuhan Virus Delta variant is reported to be 8-9 which is about as high as it gets. For comparison, the Ro for the cold or the flu is 2, maybe 3. The earlier covid variant had a number of about 2.75
This variant has the same infection rate as chicken pox - which means everyone who is susceptible of catching this virus is going to catch it.
Masks will do little to stop it's spread and may actually increase the spread due to improper disposal of contaminated masks
The CDC admits now that it is spread by the injections.