Does COVID have an end, as in a final chapter or act?
Or will it be like a movie theme that keeps spitting out sequels, each one worse than the last one, and none even close to the first movie that started the franchise? Think of Star Wars or Fast and Furious.
COVID sequels are the endless variants, starting with Greek letters, now with simply a soup of letters and numbers denoting the current strain of interest. As viruses mutate, they generally become more contagious but less lethal, as much of the population by this time has gained natural immunity from previous infection. This also serves to prolong the life course of the virus that would rather spread far and wide as opposed to killing its host, stopping spread.
COVID cases numbers are up, but what does that really mean? We see endless tweets from politicians testing positive, almost all of them fully vaccinated and boosted, feeling fine, expressing thanks for the vaccines, using almost identical verbiage in their tweets..........
How many Americans are still at risk of COVID, now over two years into the pandemic? According to the CDC,
“At least 58% of U.S. population has natural antibodies from previous
Covid infection.” They say “at least” meaning close to two thirds of
Americans could have natural immunity by now....................To Read More...
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