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Posted on 12/19/2021 7:23:28 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
After spending more than 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins is retiring this weekend. But he's no less worried about the public health agency's latest pandemic curveball.
As the omicron variant threatens record-breaking rates of infections in the U.S., Collins departs with a warning. If Americans don't take COVID-19 seriously, the country could see 1 million daily infections, he said.
"We cannot afford to let down our guard," Collins told NPR's Scott Detrow in an interview with Weekend Edition.
After spending more than 12 years as director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins is retiring this weekend. But he's no less worried about the public health agency's latest pandemic curveball.
As the omicron variant threatens record-breaking rates of infections in the U.S., Collins departs with a warning. If Americans don't take COVID-19 seriously, the country could see 1 million daily infections, he said.
"We cannot afford to let down our guard," Collins told NPR's Scott Detrow in an interview with Weekend Edition.
But it's too early to know how the highly mutated omicron will act in the U.S. compared to previous variants, said Collins. With omicron's 57 different mutations, he said, it's "almost like we're starting over with a different virus than where we began."
According to scientists' most pessimistic projections, the U.S. could reach over a half-million average daily infections by the end of January — more than double last winter's peak.
The outgoing director fears a worse situation.
"Even if it has a somewhat lower risk of severity, we could be having a million cases a day if we're not really attentive to all of those mitigation strategies," he said.
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1 million cases per day!?!
No, Americans drink way more beer than that.
Cases, cases, cases. Oh my!
"After the fair trial", mind you.
With omicron’s 57 different mutations, he said, it’s “almost like we’re starting over with a different virus than where we began.”
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Heinz 57
What ever the number they’ll add 40 or 50 percent just because
My wife and I had Covid last October and we’re still here. It wasn’t pleasant but what flu is? I think the reason there’s an uptick is because of all the influx of illegal aliens. Am I wrong? Can I get a witness?
Google: How many colds are normal per year?
Each year in the United States, there are millions of cases of the common cold. Adults have an average of 2-3 colds per year, and children have even more. Most people get colds in the winter and spring, but it is possible to get a cold any time of the year.
A million people a day getting sniffles and feeling tired for that day? The horrors!
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Go on off and strum your stupid guitar you Mr. Green Jeans yokel. Just STFU....
Illegal aliens aren’t tested or vaxxed because they aren’t part of the vax immunity deal I imagine. Therefore, they could very likely break Pfizer et al in a world court.
Very likely.
And Biden is/was shipping them all over the US.
It’s so bad that Immigration swooped down on an On The Border in Plano, Texas and forcefully flew their patrons and staff out of state.
The shift manager was as he was being carted off heard to protest that he’d been born in East LA.
This crap AGAIN?
I think you’re right. My wife and I came down with something late Friday afternoon. Fri and Saturday nights especially, dry hacking cough and stuffed up nose. Felt exactly like a cold and probably was. Sunday morning feel 100%. The Xflow and zarbees melatonin cough syrup wiped it out.
Hope it was omicron.
Real men drink Scotch.
College football season just finished. Week after week after week 10s of thousands of people pressed into stadiums shoulder to shoulder and back to front for 3 - 4 + hours for 13 weeks all across the nation. They didn’t succomb to the pandemic.
How do we know this?? If a pandemic was raging the stadium would have been empty after week or two. They weren’t. They were packed through the end of the season. Packed through chamionship week. And will be packed through the bowl season.
No masks, no distancing, screaming, cheering, singing. And no pandemic.
Gotta wonderwho is believing the company line.......
With a doubling every 3 days, that’s 250 million in a month.
Oh Noes!
That's the money line right there. He has inadvertently exposed the plan. From now to eternity every common cold and flu is going to be "covid". Power over the masses.
Until we start killing them.
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