The rate of COVID-19 vaccines launched and in the arms of Americans is not only important for saving lives and getting back to normal. This can also play an important role in the fact that these vaccines become annual, like the flu vaccine.
“But I think it is conceivable that some version of this really does occur. We don’t know about that. What we hope to do is to lower the level of infection so that the circulation of the virus does not have the opportunity to change from season to season or from year to year, ”said Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Speaking to the head of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Fauci said that while it is still too early to say whether COVID-19 could be a seasonal problem, there are ways to avoid this.
Vaccines, not just in the United States, but around the world can make a difference.
“The only wildcard in this that can hinder this plan is that we need to look at it globally, because if you have a lot of replication happening in other countries in the world, sooner or later, even if you take care of your own country with vaccines, mutants they may tend to circulate in your society and decrease the protection of the vaccines you are using, ”said Fauci.
In short, Fauci says that you need to eliminate the virus globally to eliminate the chance of its mutation season after season.
That is why he says he is happy that the USA has returned to be part of the World Health Organization and COVAX is helping to bring the vaccine to needy countries.
At the moment, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States lead population-based vaccinations and are far ahead of other countries in the first world.
Poor nations are not yet registering for vaccination on a worldwide Oxford tracker.