Tuesday, January 26, 2021

U.S. Will Be The First Western Nation To Crush Covid-19

Asia Times: US likely to be first Western nation to crush Covid-19 

Combination of vaccination and past infection may immunize two-thirds of population by mid-2021 

Europe’s bungled rollout of coronavirus vaccines makes it likely that the United States will be the first big Western nation to eliminate the Covid-19 pandemic, German immunologists told Asia Times in interviews this week. 

Although Germany showed much lower infection and mortality rates during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring of 2020, Europe’s failure to source and distribute vaccines on a scale sufficient to dent the pandemic gives the United States a clear lead. 

The US is vaccinating its population at three times the rate of France and Germany, according to the Our World in Data website. 

The only country acting faster is the United Kingdom, with a daily vaccination rate of 0.5 doses per 100 people. 

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WNU Editor: I agree that the US will be the first Western nation to achieve herd immunity. But they have paid a terrible price. The big worry are the variants that are popping up here and there, and the possibility that something terrible may appear. But I think we are now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

6 comments:

  1. Yeah, they are going to achieve herd immunity, but also they are going to redefine the criteria to judge, if a person died of COVID.

    All respiratory viral illnesses are not treated the same in statistics. They changed how to determine if someone has or died of COVID last spring and it is different than the
    criteria used for influenza.

    Very useful for the medical industrial complex, pharmaceutical companies, and politicians. Not so good for everyone else, who are being sheared. Wealth redistribution by designated emergency.

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  2. We are going to see a miracle not what Trump is not in office, I got a dollar it will be just another "flu" within a few months.

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    1. You're right Stephen! With the advent of the Biden administration we live in a time of magic and miracles.

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  3. Such alliteration!

    I bet you can rhyme things too!

    Knowing how to do both makes you a giant, a genius , among English PhD's!

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