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3 hours ago - Science
Eileen Drage O'Reilly
Americans are now getting infected with COVID-19 at 10 times the rate needed to end the pandemic, which will persist until more people get vaccinated, NIAID director Anthony Fauci tells Axios.
Threat level: "The endgame is to suppress the virus. Right now, we're still in pandemic mode, because we have 160,000 new infections a day. That's not even modestly good control ... which means it's a public health threat."
"In a country of our size, you can't be hanging around and having 100,000 infections a day. You've got to get well below 10,000 before you start feeling comfortable," Fauci says.
Once enough people have been vaccinated, he adds, "you'll still get some people getting infected, but you're not going to have it as a public health threat."
Between the lines: Despite all of the buzz about the Mu variant, which appears to elude some protective properties of authorized vaccines and prior infections, the Delta variant continues to dominate in the U.S. and around the world.
The good news: Fauci says this means currently authorized vaccinations are still effective.
The bad news: Not enough Americans are taking measures against the Delta variant, which has already upped the stakes.
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Lucinda
(31,170 posts)ananda
(28,858 posts)I will never be mentally ready for Mu, but
I have to face reality.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)I am resentful, it never had to be this bad. America has been too ill for too long...brainwashed people refusing the free remedy they are given. Incredible, really.
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)It's not just America, lots of other countries are experiencing the same problem, even with the availability of the vaccine. Right wingers everywhere are being idiots.
America does not have a lock on stupidity.
Sad state when the alternative is life.
Elessar Zappa
(13,974 posts)It could be more resistant to vaccines but more data is needed. I wouldnt get too worked up about it until we know more.
Lovie777
(12,256 posts)only the true believers will be left, well the ones that survive and have mild pre-exiting conditions that does cost the party of death much money to be taken care of. Now I really don't know about the animal de-wormer stuff and I have been reading that it effects male fertility, and if true so be it.
The rate the RWers are going, their cult will keep dwindling, one reason, they continue to be host to the different potent COVID variants.
Logical, no.
Soooooooooooooo, vaccinated people have more of a chance to continue the species.
PortTack
(32,759 posts)SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Thanks to all of the Fucked Up Americans, the world will NEVER be able to "end the pandemic."
This is going to be more political BS for them to use going forward.