Covid-19 is likely to fade away in 2022

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Many people are now protected from current variants of covid. But that immunity has been acquired at a terrible cost

die—they fade away. And that is what covid-19 is likely to do in 2022. True, there will be local and seasonal flare-ups, especially in chronically undervaccinated countries. Epidemiologists will also need to watch out for new variants that might be capable of outflanking the immunity provided by vaccines.

The polio vaccine took 20 years to go from early trials to its first American licence. By the end of 2021, just two years after-2 was first identified, the world was turning out roughly 1.5bn doses of covid vaccine each month. Airfinity, a life-sciences data firm, predicts that by the end of June 2022 a total of 25bn doses could have been produced. At a summit in September President Joe Biden called for 70% of the world to be fully vaccinated within a year. Supply need not be a constraint.

However, alongside this success is that failure. One further reason why covid will do less harm in the future is that it has already done so much in the past. Very large numbers of people are protected from current variants of covid only because they have already been infected. And many more, particularly in the developing world, will remain unprotected by vaccines or medicines long into 2022.

The combination of infection and vaccination explains why in, say, Britain in the autumn, you could detect antibodies to covid in 93% of adults. People are liable to re-infection, as Britain shows, but with each exposure to the virus the immune system becomes better trained to repel it. Along with new treatments and the fact that more young people are being infected, that explains why the fatality rate in Britain is now only a tenth of what it was at the start of 2021.

 

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hopefully...

Covid has become an industry that big pharma will be milking for years. It won’t go away till all are vaxxed.

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Promises, promises.

Based on what science? Not in the UK as long as BJ is in charge of the final saying & manipulation. All of us will be dragged down sooner or later to the death trap & long Covid symptoms in the UK. The UK needs transparency and real science now.

I guess it means by then the pharma companies and the health care guys would have become so rich they would say it's enough now, let us start spending it!

2023 is another 12 months away. That is a long time.

It was not even in 2021 but someone needed to make tons of money.

You can’t say that with any certainty at all. Careful with this statement

Provided 🇨🇳 & big pharma is not up to another mischief

I hope so. 22 years gone

Many deaths across the globe could have been prevented if wasn't for leaders spreading lies and underplaying the dangers to remain in power. This tragedy happened in the US as well with Trump as the world is aware of. Now they must be held accountable, wouldn't you agree?

I have a bad feeling this will be brought back in a year of two as a foolish hopeful prediction. C-19 is certainly calling the Tune NOW VaxUPBitches!

What long-term studies support the claim(s) that these injectables are safe?

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