The world is nowhere near the end of the Covid pandemic, says famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant

[BeckyDem]

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

PUBLISHED SUN, AUG 8 20218:51 PM EDT UPDATED 20 MIN AGO
Yen Nee Lee
@YENNEE_LEE



The pandemic is not coming to an end soon — given that only a small proportion of the world population has been vaccinated against Covid-19, a well-known epidemiologist told CNBC.

Dr. Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who was part of the World Health Organization’s team that helped eradicate smallpox, said the delta variant of the coronavirus is “maybe the most contagious virus” ever.

In recent months, the U.S., India and China, as well as other countries in Europe, Africa and Asia have been grappling with a highly transmissible delta variant of the virus.

WHO declared Covid-19 a global pandemic last March — after the disease, which first emerged in China in late 2019, spread throughout the world.

The good news is that vaccines — particularly those using messenger RNA technology and the one by Johnson & Johnson — are holding up against the delta variant, Brilliant told CNBC’s “Street Signs” on Friday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/09/covid-epidemiologist-larry-brilliant-on-delta-variant-vaccinations.html

[elias7]

1. Do Republicans ever tire of being proven wrong about everything?

Covid
Climate change
Trickle down economics
Slavery
Human rights
Women’s rights
LGBTQ+
Gravity
Heliocentrism

[BeckyDem]

2. Nope, they excel at it.

Can you imagine anyone like Eisenhower getting any votes in any red state? I can't.

Wise conservatives spelled it out not too long ago. It gets worse every cycle, imo.



Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein Friday, April 26, 2013


The Republican Party has become a radical insurgency—ideologically extreme, scornful of facts and compromise, and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. Securing the common good in the face of these developments will require structural changes but also an informed and strategically focused citizenry.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/finding-the-common-good-in-an-era-of-dysfunctional-governance/

[Moebym]

4. I'm certain that GOP leadership knows right from wrong

But the key here is that the rank-and-file do not. This is by design.

Keeping GOP voters ensconced in their alternate reality bubble keeps them voting for the Red team election after election, and the most effective way of maintaining these delusions is to use right-wing media and social media to feed a steady diet of propaganda that Democrats are the enemies of all that is good in America.

[appalachiablue]

3. K/R

[Worried2020]

5. Oh, I've known this for quite some time . . .

.

and I'm just an old fart that is a voracious reader

I looked at three different charts from different sources today, and I see that our Province - Ontario, is already starting it's 4th wave/spike, and school is about to reopen shortly . . . .

This bug is still growing/mutating -

and we don't get it.



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