Dr Hans Kluge said new strains of Covid will continue to emerge and the virus will remain with us like the flu. Earlier this year, he said the pandemic would be over once 70 per cent of people were fully immunized. But he admitted today that the situation had now changed, so leaders need to adapt their vaccination strategy.
Covid vaccines won’t end pandemic, WHO Europe chief warns
Dr Hans Kluge, the WHO’s Europe director, said new strains of Covid will continue to emerge and the virus will remain with us like the flu, so vaccination strategies need to be adapted.
We have to make it up as we go along. That’s always the case when facing complex, adaptive phenomena. The Five Year Plan does not work in the nonlinear world.
Fauci alarmed that cases are now 16 times too high to end pandemic
“The endgame is to suppress the virus. Right now, we’re still in pandemic mode, because we have 160,000 new infections a day,” Fauci said.
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