The rise of COVID-19 cases, which resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths daily, are attributed to the boom after the holidays, but there is another insidious factor: a new coronavirus mutation, or a variant. This new variant, from the UK, is considered to be more portable – meaning it transmits faster from person to person than the current COVID-19. Other variants – from Brazil and South Africa – can be more dangerous. Their presence in America informed the incoming head of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky Face the Nation yesterday that things are going to get worse. “Yes, I think tragically, that’s right,” former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb agrees. Read on to hear his horrible prediction – and do not miss it to ensure your health and the health of others Sure signs that you already have Coronavirus.
The COVID-19 variant will take over, says dr. Gottlieb
“What we’ll probably see is that infection is starting to decrease,” Gottlieb began, with what initially sounded like good news. “I think we’re seeing it at the moment. We’re seeing a peak in the short term in terms of the number of new daily cases.”
“Unfortunately,” he continued, “deaths and hospitalizations will continue to increase over the next two or three weeks because it is a backward indicator, but we see continued decline probably for about four weeks, maybe five weeks until this new variant begins to take over. ‘
“Right now, he is,” he said, “this new variant is about 0.5% of all infections nationally. There are hotspots in Southern California and Florida that could be closer to 1%, but it’s going doubles every week.This is the experience from other countries and this is the experience we have seen so far in the United States. So it is now 1%. This is 2%, then 4%, then 8%, then 16%, then 32%. In about five weeks, it will start to take over.“
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How to survive the new COVID-19 mutation
You need to be vaccinated, wear your face mask and avoid crowds to stay safe at a distance. “The only turning point against this new variant is the fact that we will be very infected by that time. So there will be a lot of immunity in the population and we will vaccinate more people,” Gottlieb said. ‘But it really changes the equation. And I think what we are looking at is a relentless strike of this virus in the spring, while infections would really start to decline in the spring. We would have had a quiet spring. We can have persistently high infection levels in the spring until we finally get enough people vaccinated. ‘
So follow the public principles and help end this boom, especially since there is a more contagious virus out there – carry 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.