The UK is now reeling under one of the most severe public health crisis, not seen since the start of the current pandemic. Despite adequate care, few variants are loose in the community with a propensity for increased transmission, ability to evade the RT PCR tests, cause severe disease and a potential for decreased vaccine efficacy. The later is still under review, while the available data is indicating that the efficacy is probably not compromised.
On Dec 26, 2020, I shared a link associating the variants with the infectivity, implications on testing, therapy, and vaccines. https://mymilieu.org/2020/12/26/emergent-variants-and-infectivity/ Now, these variants are gradually becoming pervasive. In the UK, the lockdown has become commonplace. LA is Southern California, is no exception.
As the mutant variants in fast-moving across communities, they will strengthen by our resistance to vaccinate. I shared another link, https://mymilieu.org/2021/01/28/a-triple-whammy-variant-vaccination-and-complacency/, that provides a simple explanation on how vaccination will halt the spread of the virus. The medical community and other healthcare workers have to put all their might to counter the anti-science (believes) and the rumors generated from conspiracy theories to increase adoption of the virus. However, the responsibility falls on all the elites, not just those from medicine and allied faculty, to spread vaccination.
If only we proactively spread the message within our network, engage in an active dialog, resolve the misgivings around the vaccine, start Fastrack the process to curtail the virus. Our ability to bounce back, as a nation and as a community, depends upon how we counter the virus.
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