Health expert Peter Hotez warns of a third COVID-19 wave, says a vaccine likely won't come for

[TexasTowelie]

Health expert Peter Hotez warns of a third COVID-19 wave, says a vaccine likely won't come for another year

by Shawn Mulcahy, Texas Tribune


Vaccine expert Dr. Peter Hotez warned Texas could face another potentially deadly spike in COVID-19 cases and said an immunization for the novel coronavirus likely won’t be widely available for another year during a conversation on Thursday at the 2020 Texas Tribune Festival.

Hotez, dean at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, criticized the White House’s lack of a coordinated response to the coronavirus, pointing to a drastic surge in cases in Texas, Georgia and Florida this summer.

“If we had had that leadership that had put in place a national campaign strategy to prevent the resurgence of COVID-19, we never would’ve been there,” he said.

At its peak in July, Texas logged more than 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day. Hospitals neared capacity and open beds in intensive care units were sparse.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/24/peter-hotez-coronavirus/

[soothsayer]

1. We're not getting out of the first wave until drumpf is gone