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U.S. could see 1 million cases per day, warns departing NIH director Francis Collins
NPR ^ | December 19, 20217:44 AM ET | Emma Bowman

Posted on 12/19/2021 9:10:03 AM PST by conservative98

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.

"I know people are tired of this," he said, acknowledging Americans' fatigue of having weathered almost three pandemic-stunted years. "I'm tired of it too, believe me. But the virus is not tired of us. It's having a great old time changing its shape every couple of months, coming up with new variants and figuring out ways to be even more contagious."

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1 posted on 12/19/2021 9:10:03 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

And exactly how many deaths have been attributed to the Omicron variant, worldwide?

One.

It’s over, folks, go back to your lives.


2 posted on 12/19/2021 9:12:28 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: conservative98

😨😷💉🐂💨💩💸


3 posted on 12/19/2021 9:12:54 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: conservative98

Fear porn to the nth degree.


4 posted on 12/19/2021 9:13:09 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Yo-Yo

They are getting more desperate. It’s slipping away from them.


5 posted on 12/19/2021 9:13:26 AM PST by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: Yo-Yo

“And exactly how many deaths have been attributed to the Omicron variant, worldwide?

One.”

Seven in U.K. alone.


6 posted on 12/19/2021 9:14:51 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: conservative98

If you keep “vaccinating”, you’ll get there.


7 posted on 12/19/2021 9:14:53 AM PST by Redleg Duke (“I’m not the only one!”)
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To: conservative98

If there are 1 million infections per day, it will be completely over in about 2 months.

They will NEVER let it be over.


8 posted on 12/19/2021 9:15:00 AM PST by UNGN
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To: conservative98

They only talk about the number of “infections.” NEVER the actual number of deaths.


9 posted on 12/19/2021 9:15:03 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: conservative98

QUICK! ALL YOU LEMMINGS JUMP OFF THIS CLIFF! CDC SAYS SO!


10 posted on 12/19/2021 9:15:22 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: conservative98

So everyone would have gotten it in next to no time, just like the common cold. So what’s there to worry about?


11 posted on 12/19/2021 9:16:32 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservative98
You mean THIS Francis Collins?


12 posted on 12/19/2021 9:16:49 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: conservative98

so the plandemic will be over in 330 days?


13 posted on 12/19/2021 9:17:01 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: ground_fog

Gee if it that big a problem, why retire? We need your sage judgement and experience. Or is he getting out of the
spot light when someone finally says, eh, since we know where this came from, why are we doing nothing about it. I am not saying we need take this to the extent we took Japan after the WW2 attack BUT at least sue in the world court and if that does not work, then all bets should be off.


14 posted on 12/19/2021 9:17:39 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: TexasGator

I wonder how many of those seven U.K. deaths were caused by other causes, such as cancer, heart disease, etc.

And the person just happened to have the variant in their system.


15 posted on 12/19/2021 9:18:17 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Donald J. Trump is my president, not the Commander-in-Thief, brain-dead Joseph Stolen)
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To: TexasGator

“Seven in U.K. alone.”

37,101 total Omicron cases in UK.

.0001886 death rate so far. But it’s early.


16 posted on 12/19/2021 9:20:10 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: Yo-Yo

It seems like the tests are not very accurate. How would they be able to tell that a death was because of a specific variant of COVID? How would they know for sure COVID was the driving factor in a death, especially when they don’t go beyond what the damn tests tell them?


17 posted on 12/19/2021 9:20:36 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: ground_fog

“..It’s slipping away from them....”

Good! The sooner, the better.
The communist, devil-worshipping left has done NOTHING for the American People...nothing, except steal, kill and destroy. Just like their Big Daddy, Satan.
They’re AINOS; American In Name Only.


18 posted on 12/19/2021 9:22:28 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Redleg Duke

All the people I know who died from Covid were all unvaccinated


19 posted on 12/19/2021 9:25:19 AM PST by setter
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To: conservative98

There must be bodies everywhere.


20 posted on 12/19/2021 9:27:15 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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