Daniel W. Drezner has written an opinion column: "Why don’t Americans care about the pandemic anymore? A million have died of covid-19. But the country is ready to just move on?"
Dr. Topol was on the PBS News Hour to talk about Why the fight against COVID appears to have stalled in the U.S.. Here's an excerpt - but read the whole transcript.
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Dr. Eric Topol, Scripps Research Translational Institute:
"Well, Bill, good to be with you.
The problem we have is this illusion or deception that the pandemic is over, when, in fact, these variants that we're seeing are coming at a much faster clip. There's an accelerated evolution of the virus. And these are more troubling variants. They're not more mild.
In fact, they have more immune escape. So they're transmitting at levels that is really inconceivable and starting to approach the level of measles, one of the most spreadable pathogens we have ever encountered.
So we have trouble right now. As you mentioned, we are seeing at least 600,000, 700,000 real cases a day, and, likely, it's going to continue to increase in this country as we confront this so-called BA.2.12.1 variant, one of the several of the Omicron family."
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