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President Joe Biden on Friday warned unvaccinated Americans about the emerging COVID-19 Delta variant and said these individuals are even more vulnerable to infection as more cases emerge.
“The Delta variant can cause more people to die in areas where people have not been vaccinated,” he said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Biden told reporters that the variant, which was first discovered in India, is “potentially” deadlier and “particularly dangerous for young people.”
He said it was unlikely that the variant would force the country to reinstate lockdowns.
“I don’t think so, because so many people have already been vaccinated,” he said. “But the Delta variant can cause more people to die in areas where people have not been vaccinated. Where people have gotten the two shots, the Delta variant is highly unlikely to result in anything.”
Dr. Rochelle “Impending Doom” Walensky (she inaccurately feared virus deaths would greatly worsen), the head of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, also said the country needs to be prepared for new infections. She said it is important for Americans to get their second vaccine shot.
Nature magazine, in January, asked more than 100 immunologists about whether the virus can be completely eradicated from the world and about 90 percent said that will not happen and the disease will become endemic, which means it will begin to resemble the flu and break out yearly.
“Eradicating this virus right now from the world is a lot like trying to plan the construction of a stepping-stone pathway to the moon,” Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, told the magazine. “It’s unrealistic.”
Indeed, this is the same Osterholm that was selling COVID Fear this past February when he declared on NBC’s Meet the Press(titutes) that America is facing a “Category 5” storm as coronavirus variants begin to spread across the country and that “We are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country.”
Despite being 100 percent wrong, the mainstream media has appeared to take its cue from health officials and politicians about the Delta variant. The Atlantic wrote, “There’s no way of knowing how bad things will get in the U.S. In a way that’s a luxury.”
The magazine said Delta, which is labeled a “variant of concern,” is the most concerning variant yet. (Sorry Beta and Gamma.) The variant is responsible for 10 percent of the current cases in the U.S. The magazine, citing data from the United Kingdom, reported that one shot of the Pfizer vaccine offers 34 percent protection against the variant compared to 88 percent protection for those who have received two doses.
There have been 300 million shots administered in the U.S. and about 65 percent of adults have rolled their sleeves up for one shot, The Journal reported. Biden said 15 states have administered at least one dose to 70 percent of adults. The paper pointed out that the federal government has doled out over $4 billion to states to address vaccine hesitancy.
Researchers from the University of South Florida surveyed 600 people to learn about what is fueling vaccine hesitancy in the state. The survey found that 35.3 percent of those asked said they will “probably not” or “definitely not” get the vaccine. About 25 percent were on the fence, according to News4Jax.com.
Concerns about potential side effects were the biggest driver of their concerns. About 20 percent said they do not think the vaccine prevents virus transmission.
TREND FORECAST: Drug companies see the limitless potential of having to inoculate the entire world from COVID-19. The Washington Post reported that Pfizer said it expects to produce enough vaccine to make enough for 3 billion shots in 2021, “twice as much as initial projections and enough of the two-dose immunization for 1.5 billion people. It has said it will make $26 billion in vaccine sales in 2021, which would make it the biggest-selling medicine ever.”
When drug companies need to boost their sales, they turn to booster shots. Get ready to roll up your sleeve once a year to prove you’re vaccinated from these “variants.”