Is vaccination still the key to surviving the disease? 💉
that scientists were hopeful that cases would start to decrease in the United States and that when they do occur, they will be a lot less devastating. “We will see less and less severe disease, and more and more a shift toward clinically mild disease,” said Florian Krammer, an immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. “It will be more and more difficult for the virus to do serious damage.
Administration officials are also focused on reducing the effect of the cases instead of stopping infection altogether. At a news briefing on Tuesday, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s new Covid coordinator, said that preventing infections was “not even a policy goal. The goal of our policy should be: obviously, minimize infections whenever possible, but to make sure people don’t get seriously ill.”