Pandemic Not Ending Soon According To Who Epidemiologist

Well-known epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant has warned that the pandemic is far from over, saying, “I think we’re closer to the beginning than we are to the end…” Currently, only 15% of the world population has been vaccinated, although over 100 countries have less than 5% of people vaccinated. Dr Brilliant warns, “unless we vaccinated everyone in 200 plus countries, there will still be new variants,” which will continue to drive the pandemic like the Delta variant has. Dr Brilliant was part of the World Health Organisation’s team that helped eradicate smallpox, and is now the founder of a pandemic response consultancy.

The silver lining is that our vaccines continue to be effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalisation and death, even with the Delta variant. COVID-19 infections are also dropping in places such as the UK and India, where the virus seems to have spread to quickly that it has ‘run out of candidates’ to infect. But the risk of new variants arising still remains until the world is vaccinated, not just our country or our state.

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