The coronavirus surge is tearing via America, and the “finish line” is trying additional and additional away. Omicron and vaccines could assist us all attain herd immunity. On the opposite hand, many, many individuals worldwide stay unvaccinated and unboosted, so new variants could seem. What is the most effective and worst case state of affairs? Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the President and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and CDC Chief Dr. Rochelle Walensky appeared yesterday with the main points. Read on for five life-saving items of recommendation—and to make sure your well being and the well being of others, do not miss these Sure Signs You’ve Already Had COVID.
What will the subsequent six months seem like—finest case/worst case? “We don’t know,” stated Dr. Fauci, “but what one does when you have a situation where you don’t know, because we have also had the experience as you know of the unpredictability of things like what happened with Delta and what happened with Omicron—so you put together a best case scenario and a worst case scenario. What’s the best case scenario? The best case scenario is that the…diminution in cases in many regions of the country will continue to go down to a baseline level that is a level of what we call ‘adequate control.’ Namely, it’s not disruptive of what we do. And the combination of vaccinated and boosted people and the protection afforded by prior infection will have a level of protection in the community so that you won’t get the situation where there’s enough activity, which leads to hospitalizations deaths and stressing the healthcare system.”
“That’s the best case scenario,” stated Dr. Fauci. “The worst case scenario is something we have to be prepared for. And that is we do get down to a level that we say would be ‘adequate control,’ but we are faced with another surprise with a variant that’s so different that it eludes the accumulation of the immune protection that we’ve gotten from vaccinations and from prior infections, I hope that doesn’t happen. I can’t give you a statistic of what the chance of that happening is, but we have to be prepared for it. So we hope for the best and prepare for the worst.”
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“The current seven day daily average of cases is about 744,600 cases per day, a decrease of about 5% over the previous week. The seven day average of hospital admissions is about 21,000 per day, anincrease of about 1% over the previous week. And the seven-day average daily deaths are more than 1,700 per day. As these numbers indicate, in some parts of the country, we are seeing the number of daily cases caused by the Omicron variant beginning to decline. But as we have seen during other phases of this pandemic, the surge in cases started at different times in different regions may continue to see high case counts in some areas of the country in the days.”
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Dr. Walensky spoke about three “reports” that “add more evidence to the importance of being up to date with COVID vaccinations. That means getting your primary series and getting boosted when eligible to protect against severe COVID-19.” “Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines aren’t just preventing infections with the contagious Omicron variant — they’re also keeping infected Americans from ending up in the hospital, according to data published on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” the New York Times summarized. “The extra doses are 90 percent effective against hospitalization with the variant, the agency reported. Booster shots also reduced the likelihood of a visit to an emergency department or urgent care clinic. The extra doses were most effective against infection and death among Americans aged 50 and older, the data showed.”
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“Those who remain unvaccinated are at significantly higher risk for infection and severe COVID 19 disease.” And “protection against infection and hospitalization with the Omicron variant is highest for those who are up to date with their vaccination, meaning those who are boosted when they are eligible. There are still millions of people who are eligible for booster dose and have not yet received one. As we continue to face the Omicron variant representing over 99% of infections in the United States today, I urge all who are eligible to get their booster shot, to get it as soon as possible.”
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“If you get Omicron, can you get it again? “Sure. There are re-infections, however it’s unlikely that for those who mount immune response, at the very least over a interval of a number of months, this can be very unlikely that you can be reinfected with the identical variant. We have seen reinfections. But these are principally in individuals who’ve been contaminated with Alpha, who then wind up getting reinfected with Beta or reinfected with Omicron,” said Dr. Fauci.
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Follow the general public well being fundamentals and assist finish this pandemic, regardless of the place you reside—get vaccinated or boosted ASAP; for those who dwell in an space with low vaccination charges, put on an N95 face masks, do not journey, social distance, keep away from massive crowds, do not go indoors with folks you are not sheltering with (particularly in bars), follow good hand hygiene, and to guard your life and the lives of others, do not go to any of those 35 Places You’re Most Likely to Catch COVID.
