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CDC Director: COVID-19 Will Become a ‘Seasonal Virus’
epoch times ^ | 8 March A.D. 2022 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 03/08/2022 12:31:50 PM PST by lightman

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said she expects COVID-19 to become seasonal like influenza.

“I do anticipate that this is probably going to be a seasonal virus,” she told NBC News on Monday. Her comment appears to be her first public acknowledgment that CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus cases increase or drop depending on the season. COVID-19 is caused by the CCP virus.

Walensky further said that she believes that U.S. officials will likely recommend or mandate masks, coming more than a week after the CDC moved to loosen its mask recommendation requirements for most of the country.

“We may want to be more vigilant during some seasons,” she told the outlet. “Maybe during respiratory season, if things ramped up, we would want to put on our masks again to protect both from flu and from COVID and from all other respiratory diseases.”

As early as summer 2021, some Republican officials, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, said that COVID-19’s upswing appears to be seasonal.

“These things have a pattern,” DeSantis said during public remarks in July. “We saw the pattern last summer. It’s similar. I think it started a little later. I think people should just be prepared for that.”

Officials in Scandinavian countries last year also started to describe COVID-19 as seasonal.

“We are now in a new phase where we must look at the coronavirus as one of several respiratory diseases with seasonal variation,” Prime Minister Erna Solberg said in September 2021 while announcing an ease in restrictions.

As of Monday, the United States is averaging 49,569 new COVID-19 cases per day, according to federal data, representing a decrease of more than 50 percent over the past two weeks. COVID-related death numbers are also dropping.

While the CDC recently changed its mask recommendation for most public settings, the agency and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) both continue to mandate masks on airplanes, in airports, and on most forms of public transportation.

Other CDC officials told NBC that they believe that COVID-19 will likely never go away. From the onset of the pandemic, some countries—including China, New Zealand, and Australia—have pursued a “zero COVID” strategy that critics say triggered significant economic losses and related hardships.

“This virus will probably continue to circulate in our society, in our country, around the world for years to come,” Dr. Henry Walke, the director of the CDC’s Center for Preparedness and Response, told the outlet on Monday. “This next six months, the next year, will really inform us in terms of what living with this virus is going to look like.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid1984; neverendingpandemic; onandonandon; walensky
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1 posted on 03/08/2022 12:31:50 PM PST by lightman
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To: lightman

ADE


2 posted on 03/08/2022 12:35:57 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: lightman

Again Wallensky is a day late and dollar short.


3 posted on 03/08/2022 12:36:01 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: lightman
We've all known this for two years.

How's the "Winter of Disease, Death and Despair" working out for everybody? Johns Hopkins USA Cases shown below...


4 posted on 03/08/2022 12:39:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: lightman

Will? That’s how I’ve seen it since last spring.


5 posted on 03/08/2022 12:40:41 PM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: lightman

It’ll be a cold for most of us with immune systems, and flu for the others.


6 posted on 03/08/2022 12:41:16 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: lightman

Like every other flu.


7 posted on 03/08/2022 12:44:15 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: lightman
“I do anticipate that this is probably going to be a seasonal virus,” she told NBC News

She went on to add, "It will likely recur every election season, and therefore it will be necessary to continue to implement seasonal measures to fight the virus, such as mail-in ballots without signature check."

8 posted on 03/08/2022 12:45:41 PM PST by Meet the New Boss (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: lightman

Called it from the go two years ago.
Captain Obvious strikes again.....


9 posted on 03/08/2022 12:45:43 PM PST by cranked
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"...recommend or mandate masks..."

Those are both nothing but suggestions.
A mandate is not a law.

10 posted on 03/08/2022 12:47:18 PM PST by skimbell
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To: lightman

Just wait, come September they will want lockdowns and mail-in voting back.

FJB!


11 posted on 03/08/2022 12:51:59 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: lightman

This is horrible news. “We may want to put on our masks again” when coming from the CDC translates to “blue states will force mask mandates at any time for any reason.”

And college students in blue states—maybe in red states too?— now have yet to be “allowed” to unmask. My son is vaxxed and boosted (as are 90% of the students) as is required, and there are only 2 student cases in his university of 17,000 students. And yet the mask mandate is not lifted.

Students are going to have to speak up. I’m planning to have a talk with my son this Spring break next week—surely the 5 College Republican club members on his campus can at least walk around with a “Mask Choice” sign.


12 posted on 03/08/2022 12:53:15 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: lightman

COVID 19 is biggest scam ever perpetrated on the Western world.


13 posted on 03/08/2022 1:01:39 PM PST by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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To: lightman

FUD and ass-covering fake news


14 posted on 03/08/2022 1:02:26 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: lightman

Election “seasonal” virus.

Complete with vax mandates and social tracking.


15 posted on 03/08/2022 1:06:47 PM PST by Skywise
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To: lightman

Is this what CNN told her?


16 posted on 03/08/2022 1:07:10 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: HighSierra5

Exactly. It IS a cold/flu.


17 posted on 03/08/2022 1:08:10 PM PST by GrumpyOldGuy
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we would want to put on our masks again …

No thanks, they didn't work the first time.

18 posted on 03/08/2022 1:09:54 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: lightman

It will become an election season virus. Fire up the mail-in ballot printers.


19 posted on 03/08/2022 1:11:05 PM PST by jersey117
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It will become an election season virus

Yep, November is a bad month for flu, better have mail out balloting.

20 posted on 03/08/2022 1:11:47 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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