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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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To: setter

The problem is that the numbers change as more and more people are vaccinated.

No one number gives an accurate count.


61 posted on 12/19/2021 10:51:28 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: conservative98

I heard it could be a jillion! 🤪


62 posted on 12/19/2021 10:54:44 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: conservative98

I choose not to believe that prediction. It is flatly rediculous.


63 posted on 12/19/2021 10:56:20 AM PST by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: cgbg

“The problem is that the numbers change as more and more people are vaccinated. No one number gives an accurate count.”

That stats are out there and wide open. Even Texas has shown 85% of covid deaths in September and October were among the unvaccinated.


64 posted on 12/19/2021 11:03:25 AM PST by setter
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To: ground_fog

The Scamdemic is over. After reading “The Real Anthony Fauci” I would be keeping a low profile or retire if I was him. I am sending the reading recommendation to my elected un-representitives and telling them if they don’t call for his regination I have to believe there is a monetary reason or something more nefarious.


65 posted on 12/19/2021 11:04:16 AM PST by cp124 (Living under medical tyranny. )
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To: setter

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

Great friend you are letting them die.


66 posted on 12/19/2021 11:06:52 AM PST by cp124 (Living under medical tyranny. )
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To: setter

There are lots of numbers that tell lots of stories.

You can cherry-pick the ones you want.

The story will not be fully understood for years.


67 posted on 12/19/2021 11:13:11 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

The Moderna vaxx killed my uncle. And the CDC protocal has killed others I know. Ivermectin worked for me and others, including the spouce of one that was killed in a hospital using the CDC protocol.


68 posted on 12/19/2021 11:15:36 AM PST by D Rider ( )
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To: CatOwner

‘How would they know for sure COVID was the driving factor in a death...’

quick answer; they don’t...in fact, they have never known that covid was a driving factor in any death, it was enough for them that a covid presence was detected, and that jutified an inclusion on one of the death cert lines...

and thus, we have a covid death...


69 posted on 12/19/2021 11:17:22 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: setter

The fact is 85-89% of all people dying of covid are unvaccinated. The stats prove it.

An Absolute lie.


70 posted on 12/19/2021 11:17:46 AM PST by crz
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To: setter

‘The fact is 85-89% of all people dying of covid are unvaccinated. The stats prove it.’

I admire your courage on making that statement on this website...that said, I doubt your accuracy...


71 posted on 12/19/2021 11:31:42 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: crz

“An Absolute lie.”

Refute my comment with a link.


72 posted on 12/19/2021 11:48:36 AM PST by setter
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To: Robert DeLong
I heard his interview today ......another oldster believing himself to be master at his craft. He was a hard listen and appeared a bit senile himself.


73 posted on 12/19/2021 12:45:26 PM PST by caww ( )
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To: setter

You will no doubt note that this is from the UKNHS. Remarkable since this country continues on with the propaganda spewed from liars like Fauci etal.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4022374/posts


74 posted on 12/19/2021 1:03:35 PM PST by crz
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To: setter

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4022661/posts


75 posted on 12/19/2021 1:07:18 PM PST by crz
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To: caww

I think he is just plain evil. It says a lot about just how far down the rabbit hole America has gone. They truly are out to destroy this nation and to cull the herd known as humanity.


76 posted on 12/19/2021 1:53:37 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: DoodleBob

Gates, Collins and Fauxi. Our new overlords. And they all look totally stupid.


77 posted on 12/19/2021 4:26:27 PM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness offends me)
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To: Robert DeLong

There are truckloads of dumb and or evil people running things these days.....here and abroad. It just seems like crooks are running things and ripping off everything. It’s no wonder the hype against the police force....and not prosecuting criminals.


78 posted on 12/19/2021 5:23:51 PM PST by caww ( )
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