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"Joe Biden was wrong to declare the coronavirus pandemic over in the US, one of
the country’s leading experts on the virus has told the
Guardian.
Dr Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas
Children’s hospital and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at
Baylor College of Medicine, said that the US president’s statement in
September, that “the pandemic is over”, was mistaken and a poor message to send
to the American public.
“Well, it’s certainly not [over],” Hotez said in an interview with the
Guardian. “We’re still in 200-300 deaths per day. [Covid-19] is still the
third or fourth leading cause of death in the United States. It’s definitely
the wrong message to give, given the fact that we’re desperately trying to
persuade the American people to take this [bivalent] booster.”
Hotez said that getting the bivalent booster shot is the one of the most
important things people can do to protect themselves against Covid. So far,
only 14.1% of the total US population above age five has received the bivalent
booster shot, according to the Centers for Disease Control."
Via Dewayne Hendricks and Dave Farber.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
