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A good read on this is “Contrarian Doctors: The Pandemic is Over, Again”. See: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pandemic-is-over-again/ https://sciencebase
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A good read on this is “Contrarian Doctors: The Pandemic is Over, Again”.
See: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pandemic-is-over-again/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-pandemic-is-over-again/
I knew that the pandemic was far from over with in the US even with the mass vaccination campaign being declared mostly a success this summer.
On a worldwide scale, given the rates plus the raw numbers in locales plus mobility within borders along with people crossing borders...it simply did not add up.
Plus, Americans are a very polarized group of people. (I say this as an American citizen living abroad who is also culturally American and has lived there the vast majority of her life.). Some counties in the United States had 25-30% vaccination rates at best right before the fall season. (I have not recently checked.)
But, I do recall reading that the US created a model (which of course is frequently being updated) for coronavirus spike protein mutations that would predict when the virus was statistically likely to evolve in such a way. I think it was a DARPA funded program or something like that. So, it’s not like this new “big news” came out of nowhere.
But, what is going on in the ascribed South African province in the above linked Tweet is unlikely to just be random coincidence. First, it is South Africa’s most populated province at around 15 million people. Second, it’s nearly summer in South Africa and it’s been hot there. Overall, we need people to investigate and for people to stop transmitting things that are not covered well and balanced, making many of us susceptible to confirmation bias.
But, stopping virus transmission altogether should have been our goal worldwide. Very few countries have succeeded. Yes, the WHO failed but so did the vast majority of the world’s countries.
See: Covid pandemic was preventable, says WHO-commissioned report: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/12/covid-pandemic-was-preventable-says-who-commissioned-report https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/12/covid-pandemic...