As the world enters for more than a year Coronavirus pandemic, A disease expert believes that we are closer to the beginning of the crisis than the end of the crisis.
American epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant made a statement on CNBC “Street sign,” Tell the news media “I think we are closer to the beginning than to the end [of the pandemic], This is not because the variant we are currently working on will last that long. “
Brilliant, who was a medical officer of the World Health Organization’s smallpox eradication program, infers that only 15% of the world’s population is vaccinated, and only about 100 countries have vaccinated 5% of their population.
“Unless we vaccinate everyone in more than 200 countries, there will still be new variants,” he told “Street Sign.”
Brilliant was known as early as 2006 for warning of a possible pandemic and predicting the coronavirus May become an “eternal virus”, like influenza is based on independentBut his latest warning goes a step further, as he told CNBC, the Delta variant “may be the most contagious virus.”
This Delta variantAccording to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the new coronavirus first discovered in India last fall accounted for 93% of all new COVID cases in the United States.
Delta strains have been detected in all 50 states of the country and are causing COVID cases surge Across the U.S., promote hospital On average, 100,000 new cases of COVID infection are reported every day across the country.
Brilliant is now the founder and CEO of Pandefense Advisory, a pandemic response consulting company. He told “Street Signs” that the Delta variant may not be the last strain of the coronavirus, indicating that the low-probability “super variant” may be on the horizon superior.
“If such a catastrophic event occurs, we must do everything possible to prevent it from happening. This means letting everyone Vaccinated ——Not just in your neighbors, not just in your family, not just in your country, but in the whole world,” he added.
To date, more than 166.8 million people According to the CDC, people in the United States who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 account for 50.3% of the country’s population.
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