Is the pandemic over in January? BionTech board commits!


Former Health Care Commission member and Pfizer/Biontech board member Scott Gottlieb said Friday he believes the COVID-19 pandemic may be over by January and moving to a lower-level “endemic” presence. This should be helped by a new TABLET Pfizer has developed that can reduce hospital stays by up to 89%!

Is the Pandemic Ending in January?

Is there an end in sight? The coronavirus is not expected to disappear completely, but it could settle in at a lower level so that it no longer causes the disruption and damage it has over the past year and a half.

“I think the new laws that are going to be in place by Jan. 4 are really coming at the end of this pandemic,” Gottlieb said on CNBC, referring to President Biden. “By Jan. 4, at least as far as the United States is concerned, this pandemic could be over, if we get through this delta wave of infection. Then we will be more in an endemic phase of the virus. That could be true for Europe as well.

New Pfizer pill could be game-changer!

In addition to vaccines, Gottlieb, who sits on Pfizer’s board, also pointed to the results of new treatments, including a pill from Pfizer that the company said Friday reduces the risk of hospitalization or death from COVID-19 by 89 percent.

“If we get through this delta infection wave in the next two months, I think this therapeutic and the other innovations that are coming to market will really spell the end of the pandemic in the United States,” Gottlieb said. “We need to think about how we put the victory sign on the side of the White House”.

The wave isn’t over yet. The wave of cases triggered by the highly contagious Delta variant has subsided in recent weeks, but there are still a high number of new cases per day, about 70,000, according to a New York Times report. And those cases have leveled off in recent days.

In the U.S., more than 1,000 people a day are still dying from the virus, mostly unvaccinated.

As Gottlieb suggested, the pandemic could continue to rage in other countries even if it is contained in the United States. Advocates are urging wealthy countries and vaccine makers to do more to share their vaccine technology with lower-income countries.

Experts warn that if the virus continues to circulate in large numbers elsewhere, it also risks developing a new variant that could threaten countries like America by potentially escaping current vaccines.

Gottlieb said that with the progress the U.S. is making, the discussion about lifting the mask requirement may also begin. In his hometown of Connecticut, he said, there are five cases per 100,000 people per day, and the mask requirement was lifted this week.

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