We are one year in the coronavirus pandemic, and still experiencing the wrath of COVID-19 with a large number of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. While the COVID-19 vaccines are slowly working to improve the situation, their implementation is not as effective as health experts had previously hoped. So, how will we effectively stop COVID once and for all? During an interview with the Harvard Business Review, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading expert in infectious diseases and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, announced the answer. Read on – and do not miss it to ensure your health and the health of others Sure signs that you already have a Coronavirus.
Fauci suggested that the solution is a dual situation. “The only way it’s going to stop is if you have a combination of a fairly universal compliance with the social health measures, instead of fragmentation, but also the right implementation and implementation of the vaccination program,” he explained.
The public health measures include wearing a mask, social distance and avoiding group gatherings, he said. Keep reading what still needs to be done.
Vaccination will require mass participation. ‘Like I said, and I believe that it will turn out to be true, is that if we can get 70 to 85% of the population in this country vaccinated, fully vaccinated, and we will get it fast over a period of a few months, then we will have an umbrella or a cloak, or what have you got to do with immunity of the herd that would really turn the dynamics of the outbreak completely, ”he said.
“But we have to do it,” he continued, explaining that people’s reluctance to get the vaccine could prevent herd immunity from occurring. “We can not hesitate 30 to 40 to 50% of the people to be vaccinated. We have to get the vast majority of people vaccinated, because if you do, metaphorically, the virus has no way out. It seems susceptible, but “there is no susceptibility, that’s the point. There may be some, but they are protected by the overall protection of what we call herd immunity.”
When could herd immunity be realistically achieved? “I believe we can achieve this if we do it well until early to mid-autumn,” he claims. He is confident that, according to President-elect Joe Biden, “it is entirely feasible to vaccinate a hundred million people in the first hundred days, and then literally have an open vaccination season where anyone who wants or needs to be vaccinated is vaccinated.” he said.
“If we do this effectively from April, May, June, July, August, by early fall, we should have the degree of protection I think we can bring back to a form of normality,” he said. . revealed.
However, it will also be crucial that other countries follow their example. “But it’s important that we do it – we are the global community – we need to do it on a global scale, because if there is an outbreak everywhere, it puts people everywhere at risk,” he pointed out. “While you may have a good degree of protection in your own country, you really want to get the whole world vaccinated if you really want to return to a degree of global normality.” Fauci said it could take a year or two, but he said there is no guarantee.
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While dr. Fauci pointed out that ‘timelines are always dangerous and uncertain when dealing with things that are as dynamic as a pandemic’, he noted how important it is to focus on what we can do to end the pandemic, instead of when. “We are dealing with 200,000 to 300,000 new infections a day, we are approaching very fast, 400,000 total deaths and 3,000 to 4,000 deaths a day,” he pointed out. So follow Fauci’s basics and help end this boom, no matter where you live – wear a face mask, social distance, avoid large crowds, do not go indoors with people you do not shelter with (especially in pubs), practice good hand hygiene, be vaccinated if it is available to you and around your life and the lives of others, do not visit one of this not 35 places you are likely to catch COVID.