Posted on 08/15/2021 9:26:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Ministers are being pressed to reveal what contingency plans are in place to deal with a future Covid variant that evades current vaccines, amid warnings from scientific advisers that such an outcome could set the battle against the pandemic back a year or more.
Recent papers produced by the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) have suggested that the arrival of a variant that evades vaccines is a “realistic possibility”. Sage backed continued work on new vaccines that reduce infection and transmission more than current jabs, the creation of more vaccine-production facilities in the UK and lab-based studies to predict evolution of variants.
With the arrival of a new variant seen as one of the main dangers that could intensify the crisis once again, prominent scientific figures stressed the risks. Prof Graham Medley, a member of Sage and a leader of the government’s Covid modelling group, said it was “clearly something that the planners and scientists should take very seriously as it would put us back a long way”.
“It is not that different to the planning that needs to be done between pandemics – a new variant that was able to overcome immunity significantly would be essentially a new virus,” he said. “The advantage would be that we know we can generate vaccines against this virus – and relatively quickly. The disadvantage is that we would be back to the same situation we were in a year ago, depending on how much impact current immunity had against a new variant. Hopefully, evolution is slow, so that new variants arise that are only marginally evasive rather than one big jump.” Dr Marc Baguelin, from Imperial College’s Covid-19 response team and a member of the government’s SPI-M modelling group...
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I guess this will encourage the ChiComs to roll those new variants out!
Keep vaxxing the population until their arms fall off—something might work!
Because, even though they’re experts, they didn’t anticipate that the virus could mutate. Or maybe that’s because they’re experts.
Variants have no chance against Fauci’s “safe and effective” jabs, boosters, lockdowns, vaccine passports and double masks. /s
Just “set us back” 19 months to pre covid, pre lockdowns, pre masks, pre covid vaccines times and we'll be just fine.
Gotta keep these variants going for the 2022 Midterms and beyond.
“Give us 15 months...”
And next year. And the next. And the following year. And...
The communists are trying to impose worldwide the great reset upon humanity
Their first step is to scare everybody and impose a biomedical slave state upon the world
Stay out of the system!! don’t ever get tested!!
for heaven sake —-do not ever get any of their injections!!!
Worldwide evil is on the March and they have many minions in many governments around the world
Didn’t Boris say we are just going to have to learn to live with it and move forward?
It seems most of the UK lockdown restrictions are gone. All of English stadiums are packed full this weekend.
Not *warn*.
Plan for.
“Didn’t Boris say we are just going to have to learn to live with it and move forward?”
I think that is just with the insane amount of muslim terrorism in the UK thanks to unrestrained immigration for “YAY DIVERSITY”
The communist lockdown continues. Over .2% tops, old person and infirm death disease.
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