Birx says US must prepare for summer COVID surge as immunity wanes
Source: The Hill
Theyre on an upslope again, Birx said of South Africas infections on CBSs Face the Nation.
Each of these surges are about four to six months apart. That tells me that natural immunity wanes enough in the general population after four to six months that a significant surge is going to occur again. And this is what we have to be prepared for in this country, she added.
Birx specifically warned Americans should be preparing right now for a potential surge in this summer across the southern United States.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3473217-birx-says-us-must-prepare-for-summer-covid-surge-as-immunity-wanes/
roamer65
(36,744 posts)They won't let me. I am 49 and 11/12 years old.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Blues Heron
(5,926 posts)Nothing potential about it - we are on the upswing already. Maybe Birx needs to get up to date on the latest numbers from the CDC-
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions
Also
CDC just reported 78,910 new cases yesterday bringing the current 7 day average to 56,166 a 123 percent increase from the beginning of the month when cases bottomed out at around 25,000 7 day avg.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,486 posts)Should be good to carry me through the summer.
keithbvadu2
(36,669 posts)Good advice but get someone credible to say it.
Take your scarf and go visit Mar A Lago.
getagrip_already
(14,646 posts)She is a shit stain on our democracy.
She may have had some cred as an epi, but her behavior under tfg means she is nothing.
Ignore. Don't quote. Make her invisible.
agingdem
(7,805 posts)Last edited Sun May 1, 2022, 07:30 PM - Edit history (1)
she sold her soul for a seat at the big kids table..she praised that depraved sociopath as "attentive to scientific literature" but stayed quiet when the orange miscreant shoved scientists aside in favor of quacks and political hacks...she said nothing when her guy "prescribed" ingesting bleach and injecting disinfectant as Covid cures..she did however issue a "don't try this at home kids" statement after that train wreck of a press conference...she's doing her damndest to buy back her reputation..sorry, Debs, we were there...
bluestarone
(16,872 posts)DOUBLE BOOSTERED!! more if need be!
bucolic_frolic
(43,062 posts)Novara
(5,822 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)Blues Heron
(5,926 posts)Nah just kidding, of course she didnt say that.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)I'm still masking in indoor crowded areas like transit. Not that I need any excuse, but I tell maskholes I'm sneezing from allergies because I am this time of year.
Orrex
(63,172 posts)"We must do everything in our power to keep the economy open with no pesky restrictions like masks, safe social distancing or vaccination."
FarPoint
(12,293 posts)I wouldn't give her oxygen....let alone listen... She wants to try to look credible now after thousands died while she protected 45.
I listen to Fauci and an getting my next booster this week. ... 2nd booster.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)choie
(4,107 posts)giving her the time of day?
hatrack
(59,578 posts)So I guess that explains it.
Igel
(35,275 posts)But I'm not convinced that SA and Texas are exactly comparable.
We've had surges 6, 9, and 4 months apart. In order. With the 6 month gap being pre-vaccine and the 9 and 4 month gaps post-vaccine (and the last surge happening not long post-booster 1).
I mean, the surge last summer started at the end of July and continued for the two weeks prior to the start of school--then peaked maybe 10 days to 2 weeks after school started. "But school!" fails as an explanation; school cases were carried along by the tide that lifted all flotsam. Dead of winter matters--after that, it seems pretty random.
Plus there's immunity and there's immunity. I don't have significant levels of antibodies to measles. But I'm still immune. I thought we had that discussion 18 months ago.
murielm99
(30,717 posts)I tried to keep an open mind. My husband was totally disgusted with her.
karin_sj
(808 posts)inthewind21
(4,616 posts)The same Brix who stood on national television with a deer in headlights look as Trump suggested ingesting disinfectant? Why would anyone giver the time of day?
SuperCoder
(300 posts)While I am fully vaccinated and boosted, with the next booster in the pipeline, I am NEVER going to listen to a Trump appointee who changed things to fit the narrative.
Get Dr. Fauci talking about this and we'll talk.
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)redwitch
(14,941 posts)My muscles hurt. All of them. Funny thing though, my left arm isnt sore at all. Weird.
Johnny2X2X
(18,973 posts)This pandemic is for the antivaxxers now, those fully vaxxed and boosted can largely just go about their business.
Covid deaths are at their lowest right now since the pandemic started in March of 2020.