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appalachiablue

(40,994 posts)
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 07:52 PM Oct 2021

Covid: WHO Warns Pandemic Will Drag On Into 2022

Source: BBC News

The Covid pandemic will "go on for a year longer than it needs to" because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Dr Bruce Aylward, senior leader at the WHO, said it meant the Covid crisis could "easily drag on deep into 2022".

Less than 5% of Africa's population have been vaccinated, compared to 40% on most other continents. The UK has delivered more than 10 million vaccines to countries in need. It has pledged a total of 100 million. Dr Aylward appealed to wealthy countries to give up their places in the queue for vaccines in order that pharmaceutical companies can prioritise the lowest-income countries instead.

He said wealthy countries needed to "stocktake" where they were with their donation commitments made at summits such as the G7 meeting in St Ives this summer. "I can tell you we're not on track" he said. "We really need to speed it up or you know what? This pandemic is going to go on for a year longer than it needs to."

The People's Vaccine - an alliance of charities - has released new figures suggesting just one in seven of the doses promised by pharmaceutical companies and wealthy countries are actually reaching their destinations in poorer countries....

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-58973697

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Covid: WHO Warns Pandemic Will Drag On Into 2022 (Original Post) appalachiablue Oct 2021 OP
Anyone who is surprised by this glimpse of the totally obvious, raise your hand irisblue Oct 2021 #1
I was in east Africa this summer spinbaby Oct 2021 #2
Dr. Fauci said much the same recently (posted in DU) left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 #3
I thought he said the pandemic could be under good control by next spring. To me that means over. ClimateHawk Oct 2021 #5
I think I'm wrong. left-of-center2012 Oct 2021 #6
And he said (in August) the *USA* could be back to normal by spring, not the world muriel_volestrangler Oct 2021 #11
If a variant like Delta emerges BigmanPigman Oct 2021 #4
And the anti-vaxxers are giving it plenty of opportunities to mutate too. Initech Oct 2021 #8
I know, I know... BigmanPigman Oct 2021 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Oct 2021 #7
I believe so too. NurseJackie Oct 2021 #10
At some point, I'm gonna say "fuck it" Elessar Zappa Oct 2021 #12
It could be over right now Mysterian Oct 2021 #13

spinbaby

(15,073 posts)
2. I was in east Africa this summer
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 09:26 PM
Oct 2021

I can attest that Kenya, at least, it taking COVID seriously. Masking was near universal in Nairobi because there was a fine for being unmasked or improperly masked. There was a 10:00 curfew and travel between districts was restricted. I saw advertisements for vaccines and everyone in the tourist industry was vaccinated.

Tanzania, on the other hand, was promoting Covid as a minor disease for which no vaccine was available, as evidenced by this sign at an airport.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
6. I think I'm wrong.
Wed Oct 20, 2021, 10:12 PM
Oct 2021

I now think it was David R. Scrase, M.D.,
Secretary of New Mexico's Human Services Department who said that the COVID precautions (masking, distancing, etc) could be here for the next couple of years.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,083 posts)
11. And he said (in August) the *USA* could be back to normal by spring, not the world
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:34 AM
Oct 2021
Fauci says US could be back to normal by spring 2022 – if vaccinations take off

The US could have the Covid pandemic under control and achieve a return to “normality” by next spring, Dr Anthony Fauci said, if the “overwhelming majority” of the population is vaccinated.

The chief White House medical adviser was speaking to CNN on Monday night, after the federal Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.

More than 400,000 people have been vaccinated in the US each day in August, with 171.1 million now fully protected.

“We hope we’ll be there” by spring, Fauci said, adding: “But there’s no guarantee because it’s up to us.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/24/anthony-fauci-coronavirus-us-normal-spring-2022-americans-vaccinated

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Elessar Zappa

(13,574 posts)
12. At some point, I'm gonna say "fuck it"
Thu Oct 21, 2021, 09:50 AM
Oct 2021

and, with a mask and vaccination, return to my normal activities, go to concerts, sports games, etc. The anti-vaxxers can die for all I care.

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