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Nothing but lies and propaganda – Uncovering the truth about India’s alleged “Covid Crisis”

<p><strong>The scenes being broadcast on ‘BBC News’ and displayed in newspapers such as ‘The Guardian’ across the UK on the current situation unfolding in India are horrifying. Reports of people dying in the street, images of mass “bonfires” in which they are burning the dead, constant stories about the lack of oxygen and the rush to get it from ‘A to B’ in order to save the lives of thousands of people. Sounds almost apocalyptic doesn’t it?</strong></p>
<p><strong>That is of course until you put the whole “crisis” into context. Because what you are seeing on your TV screen and reading in a newspaper on the alleged situation regarding Covid-19 in India is nothing more than propaganda and lies which are being used to maintain the level of fear that they have managed to invoke in the majority of people in the United Kingdom since March 2020. You are being deceived, and we can prove it…</strong></p>
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<p>The amount of disinformation and misinformation on India’s “Covid crisis” is now so vast that it’s hard to know where to begin to untangle the web of deceit and lies. But let’s start with an article released by ‘The Guardian’ on the 3rd May 2021. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2021/may/03/india-covid-deaths-crisis-kumbh-mela" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The article in question</a> was headlined “Covering India’s Covid crisis: ‘Hundreds of journalists have lost their lives’”. The tag line of the article reads “Our South Asia correspondent reflects on a catastrophe that is now <strong>affecting the lives of almost everyone in the country</strong>“.</p>
<p>This is a lie. The current situation unfolding in India is actually only affecting two places in particular, Delhi and Mumbai. So this is far from almost everyone in the country, a grand total of 1.4 billion people. But the main “area of concern” is currently Delhi. Step outside of these two areas and you’ll find that the rest of India is carrying on as normal.</p>
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<p>But let’s go back to the headline – “Hundreds of journalists have lost their lives”. Does ‘The Guardian’ provide any evidence of this within the article? Here’s what they wrote…</p>
<p><em>“India is a huge, diverse country to cover and I’m indebted to the brilliant work of local journalists who have been on the ground, exposing the shortage of oxygen and beds and counting the bodies at crematoriums to hold local authorities to account for covering-up the true death toll of the pandemic. They have paid a heavy price for their reporting: hundreds of Indian journalists have lost their lives covering this pandemic, including over 50 in just the past few weeks.”</em></p>
<p>This is just a direct quote from their own journalist, they do not provide a single source to back up this claim. This is just one of many examples in which the mainstream media are manipulating the public with words to maintain a level of fear. Words that are not backed up with a single shred of evidence.</p>
<p>But the propaganda doesn’t end there. Later on in the article ‘The Guardian’ ask their South Asia correspondent ‘What needs to happen now in order for the crisis to abate?’</p>
<p>Here’s the answer that was given – <em>“The only thing that is going to get us out of this crisis is amping up vaccine production and distribution.”</em></p>
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<p>Now that is a very interesting claim for several reasons. Looking at the evidence you could argue that the Covid vaccines are in fact the source of the current “crisis” unfolding in a couple of hot spots in India. Prior to the Covid Vaccine roll-out the Indian Government had been treating the citizens of India with Ivermectin, a medication that is used to treat many types of parasite infestations, including head lice and scabies.</p>
<p>But trials have also shown it to be effective in the treatment of the alleged Covid-19 disease. You could possibly say that the largest trial ever conducted proving the success of Ivermectin against Covid occurred in India with its population of 1.4 billion.</p>
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<p>India began using Ivermectin late August 2020, and as you can see from the graph above it had great success in reducing the number of daily deaths attributed to Covid-19. However for some strange reason they switched tack in January to the experimental Covid vaccines. But didn’t really get going with the vaccine roll-out until the end of February.</p>
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<p>Fast forward two weeks and the deaths attributed to Covid-19, which had almost flat lined suddenly started to rise at an unexplained and exponential rate compared to the rate previously seen in India.</p>
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<p>Correlation doesn’t always mean causation but when the same pattern occurs in country after country you have to start to question that this isn’t just a coincidence. And it has and is occurring in country after country, see for yourself <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>But here’s where things get a little weird. The Guardian claims the only way out of this alleged “crisis” is to increase production and distribution of experimental “vaccines” which do not stop the recipient from catching the disease or spreading the disease. Instead they allegedly reduce the risk of serious disease and death, but of course this is just a theory as there is no real world data to prove this.</p>
<p>Authorities in the UK will claim that this is exactly what is occurring now across Great Britain and it’s all thanks to the miraculous vaccines, but they are not considering one key factor… seasonality. So until the next autumn / winter arrives in the UK we do not know what effect these experimental vaccines will have actually had on suppressing the alleged Covid-19 disease, but we have a hunch it is not going to be pretty.</p>
<p>There is also a huge push in the UK to vaccinate every man, woman and child even though statistics show us that only 0.2% of those who contract Covid actually die and even then it has only really affected those who are over the age of 85 and have underlying conditions<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/04/05/official-nhs-data-shows-only-3-5k-have-died-of-covid-19/" target="_blank"> (see here)</a>. So why is there a big push to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the UK? Why are the Guardian saying the only way out of the manipulated and exaggerated crisis for India is to increase distribution of a Covid vaccine?</p>
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<p>One possibility of course is the billions of pounds the manufacturers of these vaccines and their shareholders stand to make if this happens. India has a population of 1.4 billion people. The Covaxin Covid vaccine is currently being sold to the Indian state for 600 Indian rupees per dose. This accounts to around £6 in English money. However two dose are required to complete the course, so that accounts for £12 per head. Now times that number by 1.4 billion people and you’ll find that Covaxin could stand to make £16.8 billion.</p>
<p>But Covaxin isn’t the only vaccine available in India, the other is Covishield which is in fact the AstraZeneca jab under a different brand name. This is being sold to the Indian State at 400 Indian Rupees a dose. This accounts for £4 in English money. Again two doses are required to complete the course, this accounts to £8 per head. Times that 1.4 billion people and the manufacturer of Covishield stands to make £11.2 billion.</p>
<p>Who produces Covishield in India? The Serum Institute of India. Who funds the Serum Institute of India? <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2020/10/inv021423" target="_blank">The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.</a> Who also funds ‘The Guardian” newspaper? <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2010/sep/14/about-this-site" target="_blank">The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</a>.</p>
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<p>If you need more evidence to clarify why the current situation in India is being used to ramp up the fear around the world so that they can get the experimental Covid vaccine into the arms of every living man, woman and child then you have to look no further than the number of alleged cases occurring due to Covid-19 in India.</p>
<p>If we look at the number of daily positive tests for SARS-CoV-2 we can see that the highest number to occur so far was on the 30th April 2021, India recorded 401,993 positive tests.</p>
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<p>Now this may sound like a frighteningly high number but it isn’t when put it into context. India has a population of 1.4 billion people. This means the number of cases to have occurred on the 30th April 2021 accounted for just 0.028% of the entire population. But the mainstream media are not putting them into context and are instead publishing fear-mongering headlines such as “India sets grim record of coronavirus cases per day”.</p>
<p>What the mainstream media aren’t telling you is how many people have recovered from these confirmed cases. Well we can tell you that as of the 2nd May 2021 only 17% of those who’ve tested positive are actually showing signs of infection, whereas 82% have recovered. <a href="https://www.covid19india.org/state/TT" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>(Source)</em></a></p>
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<p>But the mainstream media also aren’t telling you about another insidious disease growing at an alarming rate throughout the whole of India. One that had created an epidemic of which India is ill-equipped to handle. A disease which has similar symptoms to the alleged Covid-19 by primarilyy attacking the lungs causing a cough, fever and difficulty breathing… Tuberculosis.</p>
<p>According to estimates from <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://tbcindia.gov.in/WriteReadData/NSP%20Draft%2020.02.2017%201.pdf" target="_blank">National Strategic Plan for TB Elimination</a> (2017-25), a government programme that aims to make India TB-free by 2025, everyday 1400 Indians lose their lives because of Tuberculosis. This accounts for 511,000 people per year.</p>
<p>Since March 2020, India in its battle against coronavirus has neglected this disease, which has plagued the country for centuries. Could what we are seeing broadcast on television screens and published in newspapers actually be the product of 12 months of neglect in treating a much more deadly disease which has always ravaged India dressed up as an epidemic of Covid-19? The coincidences over the past year have been far too aplenty for them to remain just that.</p>
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<p>There are many more webs of lies and deceit to untangle in regards to the current narrative on India’s “Covid crisis” in the mainstream media but for today we’ll end with a graph comparing the cumulative confirmed Covid-19 deaths per million people in the United Kingdom and India.</p>
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<p>Need we say any more?</p>
<p>You are being lied to and manipulated by the mainstream media in order to maintain the level of fear which has been induced in the population since March 2020. Don’t let them cast this insidious spell over you any longer. <strong>You are better than that.</strong></p>
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<p>The Covid-19 pandemic now appears to be the worst it has ever been, with daily new cases worldwide topping <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html">800,000 several times over the past week</a>. More new cases have been reported in the past <a href="https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1389901483022462976">two weeks than in the first six months</a> of the crisis.</p>
<p>More than one in three of these new cases were <a href="https://covid19.who.int/region/searo/country/in">reported in India</a>, the world’s second-most-populous country and now the epicenter of Covid-19. The rising infections, deaths, and strained health system have created a <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/22403722/india-covid-19-vaccine-variant-cases-coronavirus">humanitarian crisis</a>, one that may not relent for months.</p>
<p>Other parts of the world that have barely begun to vaccinate people may soon see their own surges in Covid-19.</p>
<p>What’s complicating the situation is the rise of new variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Several of these variants contain mutations that can make prior immunity less effective, allow the virus to spread more readily, and, in some cases, cause more deaths. And the more the disease spreads, the more variants can arise.</p>
<p>The SARS-CoV-2 variant first identified in India last year, called <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/what-we-know-about-indian-variant-coronavirus-sweeps-south-asia-2021-04-30/">B.1.617</a>, has already become the dominant version of the virus in some parts of the country and could be a driver, among others, of the current outbreak. And it’s one reason countries are now imposing <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/04/992357751/trapped-by-india-travel-bans-workers-expats-families-an-aussie-cricket-team">travel restrictions</a> on flights from India. Other variants have already arisen independently in different parts of the world and have rapidly gained ground, too. The World Health Organization (WHO) is now <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/who-is-closely-monitoring-10-covid-variants-as-virus-mutates-around-the-world-.html">tracking 10 SARS-CoV-2 variants</a> internationally.</p>
<p>It may be hard to grasp the current scale of the pandemic from the US, which has so far managed to fully vaccinate at least one-third of its population while seeing precipitous drops in new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. All three of the vaccines that have begun distribution in the US have proven to be highly effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths from Covid-19, the worst consequences of the disease.</p>
<p>However, the US can’t afford to be complacent. Several of these more dangerous variants have already arrived in the US. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7019e3.htm">new Covid-19 models</a> and found that variants are poised to drive an increase in new cases in May.</p>
<p>The challenge now is to vaccinate people to contain the spread of the virus, not just in the US but around the world. As long as the virus is spreading anywhere, it can mutate in threatening ways. But variants aren’t the only factor at play; public health measures and political will to contain the disease will also shape the remainder of the pandemic. How these factors are converging can be confusing, so here are nine questions and answers that may clarify some of the concerns:</p>
<p>Viruses mutate all the time, making mistakes in copying their genetic code as they replicate. Most of these mistakes are actually detrimental to the virus or have no effect. But in rare cases, a change in the genetic code can occur that confers an advantage to the pathogen, changes how it functions, or makes it harder to counter.</p>
<p>The term “variant” refers to a virus strain with a distinct grouping of mutations. Sometimes these variants contain dozens of individual mutations compared to the original strain of a virus. The combination of mutations in these variants may even be working together, making the variants more dangerous than versions of the virus with individual mutations.</p>
<p>Variants of SARS-CoV-2 have arisen at several points during the pandemic, but what’s concerning about the variants spreading right now is that they seem to be better able to spread. Some also seem to lead to more severe outcomes from Covid-19. And several variants seem to be better able to evade the immune system in people who were already infected or in people who have been vaccinated. So variants can increase the chances of a Covid-19 survivor getting reinfected or raise the likelihood of a breakthrough infection in someone who received a vaccine.</p>
<p>There are several factors behind <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22247525/covid-19-variants-uk-south-africa-brazil-b117-why-now">why so many SARS-CoV-2 variants have emerged</a>. One is simply that the virus has been spreading to more people in more countries. With more infections, there are more mutations, thereby creating a greater likelihood of a rare combination of those mutations converging in a way that poses a threat.</p>
<p>Selection pressure is playing a role, too. As more people gain immunity through infection or vaccination, the variants that can evade that immunity remain and can circulate.</p>
<p>“It is not an accident that these variants first arose in areas that have a record of poor implementation of measures to mitigate spread and very high rate of infection,” said <a href="https://www.rockefeller.edu/our-scientists/research-affiliates/5609-theodora-hatziioannou/">Theodora Hatziioannou</a>, a research associate professor of retrovirology at the Rockefeller University, in an email. Places like the United Kingdom, for instance, saw major spikes in Covid-19 earlier in the pandemic and struggled to impose lockdowns, creating plenty of opportunities for mutations and the eventual B.1.1.7 variant that was first detected there.</p>
<p>Another factor is that many parts of the world are doing more genetic surveillance of Covid-19. Rather than just detecting the presence of the virus, this work involves sequencing the genome of the virus. It can reveal which specific variant is in circulation in a given area and can detect new mutations as they arise. But in many parts of the world, surveillance is inadequate or nonexistent, which means other variants could be spreading undetected.</p>
<p>SARS-CoV-2 variants are grouped into three categories. A <strong>variant of interest</strong> is one that contains mutations known to affect how the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to human cells. It could lower the efficacy of Covid-19 treatments or render prior immunity less potent. A <strong>variant of concern</strong> is one that has shown evidence of causing more severe disease or greater transmissibility, or leads to a significant reduction in protection against Covid-19 stemming from prior infections or vaccination. And if existing Covid-19 countermeasures like testing or vaccines are significantly weaker against a variant, it is labeled a <strong>variant of high consequence</strong>.</p>
<p>The WHO reported on May 3 that it now has seven variants of interest and three variants of concern on its radar.</p>
<p>The variants all have clunky names, and scientists generally try to avoid identifying them based on where they were first detected, though this often happens anyway. The WHO <a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2015-who-issues-best-practices-for-naming-new-human-infectious-diseases">discourages identifying diseases and variants by location</a> because it can be stigmatizing as well as misleading since where a disease is first detected isn’t necessarily where it originated.</p>
<p>One of the main variants of concern for the WHO is known as B.1.1.7. It was first detected in the United Kingdom last year and has since spread around the world and is poised to become the dominant variant in the US. It appears to be more transmissible, hence its rapid spread, and it appears to lead to more hospitalizations and fatalities, hence the concern.</p>
<p>The B.1.351 variant, first identified in South Africa, also seems to be more transmissible. Similarly, the <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/04/13/science.abh2644">P.1 variant that was initially reported in Brazil</a> is likely to spread more readily among people. Covid-19 treatments like monoclonal antibodies also seem to be less effective against it.</p>
<p>The CDC has <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/variant-surveillance/variant-info.html">its own variant list focused on the US</a> and includes B.1.427 and B.1.429, both first found in California, on its concern list.</p>
<p>But places like the US and Israel are seeing declines in the rate of new Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths despite the presence of variants. That’s due in large to part their success in administering Covid-19 vaccines, though factors like warmer weather may also be reducing opportunities for transmission at the moment. It shows that even if a variant is more transmissible, it can be contained with widespread immunization and public health practices.</p>
<p>What ties these variants together is that they contain mutations in SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein, the part of the virus that allows it to infect human cells. Several variants actually have some mutations in common, particularly in the receptor-binding domain of the spike protein. The receptor-binding domain comes into direct contact with human cells and commences the infection process. The mutations in this region seem to enhance the affinity of the virus for human cells, which may allow it to reproduce more.</p>
<p>One of the most concerning mutations in this region is known as <a href="https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n359">E484K</a>, where the amino acid glutamate is replaced by the amino acid lysine at position 484 in the spike protein. It has been found in several variants, including B.1.525, P.1, B.1.351, and some strains of B.1.1.7. It is also known to be an escape mutation because it can help the virus evade the immune system’s defenses. That means variants with this mutation might be more likely to reinfect people who have already had Covid-19.</p>
<p>Similarly, the N501Y mutation in the receptor binding domain has also been identified in variants like P.1, B.1.1.7, and B.1.351.</p>
<p>There are also mutations outside of the receptor binding domain that can change the overall shape of the spike protein in a way that makes it more efficient at invading cells or make it a <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00356-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867421003561%3Fshowall%3Dtrue">tougher target for the immune system</a>.</p>
<p>However, scientists are still working to confirm exactly how these variants function and how these mutations may be working in concert.</p>
<p>The number of daily new infections in India has not dipped below <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-posts-record-daily-rise-coronavirus-deaths-2021-05-05/">300,000 over the past two weeks</a>, and that is likely an undercount given the difficulties of testing for the virus and limited access to health care for many Indians. Some estimates show the actual case counts could be 10 times higher. The cases are driving shortages of hospital space, personnel, protective equipment, oxygen, and even crematorium capacity. Yet the Indian government <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56976214">remains reluctant to impose new restrictions</a> on movement and public gatherings.</p>
<p>One of the factors at play is a SARS-CoV-2 variant known as <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/what-we-know-about-indian-variant-coronavirus-sweeps-south-asia-2021-04-30/">B.1.617</a> that was first identified in India in October 2020 and has since been found in at least 17 countries, <a href="https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/covid-19-b1617-double-mutant-india-variant-identified-in-michigan">including the US</a>. It’s been described as a “double mutant,” which isn’t technically accurate because it contains many different mutations. But it does contain two mutations that have been observed in other strains to increase transmissibility and evade some of the immune protection some people have from previous Covid-19 infections.</p>
<p>B.1.617 has already become the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01059-y">dominant variant</a> in several Indian states. The situation echoes the <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)00183-5/fulltext">P.1 variant outbreak in Brazil</a>. In January, that variant spread rapidly in the city of Manaus, which had already faced a major Covid-19 outbreak in October 2020 that led to more than three-quarters of the population getting infected, according to some estimates.</p>
<p>The cause of Brazil’s second wave isn’t certain, but it may have been due to a combination of immunity waning from the first wave coupled with a variant that’s more transmissible, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/health/covid-19-coronavirus-brazil-variant.html">allowing for reinfections</a>.</p>
<p>A similar situation may be occurring in India with the B.1.617 variant, but the evidence isn’t clear yet that it’s the main culprit behind the massive surge in infections. India is also coping with the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants.</p>
<p>And both Brazil and India have made critical missteps in their public health responses to Covid-19. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro routinely dismissed the severity of Covid-19 and is now <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/explained-why-brazils-bolsonaro-is-being-investigated-over-covid-response/a-57418215">facing an investigation</a> from Brazil’s Senate over his mishandling of the pandemic.</p>
<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political party declared that the country had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/world/asia/india-covid19-modi.html">“defeated” Covid-19</a> back in February. Restrictions on public gatherings were lifted, major religious festivals took place, and political rallies continued. “I think that there was complacency here,” said <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/3528/amesh-adalja">Amesh Adalja</a>, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.</p>
<p>And although India is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, Covid-19 vaccination rates in its population remain in the single digits, leaving hundreds of millions vulnerable to infection.</p>
<p>It may be that the combination of the more transmissible B.1.617 variant, relaxing restrictions too soon, and a low vaccination rate are all fueling the Covid-19 devastation in India. This surge in cases has global implications since India’s vaccine production is critical to vaccinating other countries.</p>
<p>If the virus continues to spread unchecked, it will increase the chances of another dangerous variant emerging. And other countries that have similarly low vaccination rates and poor public health responses could experience major increases in cases in the coming months.</p>
<p>There are a variety of <a href="https://www.vox.com/22219434/covid-19-drugs-treatment-monoclonal-antibodies-plasma-antiviral-regeneron-remdesivir">treatments now available for Covid-19</a> that have helped reduce the severity and lethality of the disease.</p>
<p>However, some of the more targeted treatments, like monoclonal antibodies, seem to be less effective against several of the Covid-19 variants, like B.1.351 and P.1.</p>
<p>Antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system that can attach directly to a specific part of the virus, inhibiting its function or marking it as a target for white blood cells to eliminate. Monoclonal antibody therapies — like the ones from Regeneron and Eli Lilly — harness and clone a single antibody that is known to be highly effective at binding to its target (Regeneron’s drug uses a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies).</p>
<p>In the case of Covid-19, the target for these drugs is the spike protein of the virus. But if the spike protein mutates in the spot that the antibodies target, then these drugs could become less effective. In April, the Food and Drug Administration <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-revokes-emergency-use-authorization-monoclonal-antibody-bamlanivimab">revoked its emergency use authorization</a> for the monoclonal antibody therapy developed by Eli Lilly when used alone because several of the new Covid-19 variants seem to be resistant to it. Combinations of two or more antibodies still appear to be effective, possibly because the antibodies target different parts of the spike protein and it’s less likely for both locations to have mutations.</p>
<p>On the other hand, more general treatments for Covid-19 are not likely to be affected by the variants. Corticosteroids like dexamethasone tamp down on the immune system’s overreaction to the virus rather than targeting the virus itself, so mutations likely won’t have a major impact. <a href="https://www.vox.com/21530401/remdesivir-approved-by-fda-covid-19-fda-gilead-veklury">Remdesivir</a>, an antiviral drug and the only one with full FDA approval to treat Covid-19, seems to be <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/remdesivir-likely-works-against-covid-strains-found-in-uk-south-africa-gilead-ceo.html">just as effective</a> against the new variants as it is against the original strain, but there remain questions about how effective the drug was to begin with.</p>
<p>For now, the main Covid-19 vaccines being distributed across the US — from Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer/BioNTech — remain highly effective at preventing illness, hospitalizations, and deaths, <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.25.21256049v1">even from the new variants</a> reported so far.</p>
<p>“It is true that there is less efficacy against these new variants, but it doesn’t mean there is a complete absence of protection,” said <a href="https://www.ohsu.edu/people/fikadu-tafesse-phd">Fikadu Tafesse</a>, an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University. “The good thing is these vaccines are extremely good.”</p>
<p>One of the main exceptions, however, is the University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. It failed to hold up well against the B.1.351 variant that’s become predominant in South Africa. It <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2102214?query=featured_home">performed so poorly</a> in trials that South Africa decided to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55999678">halt the use of the vaccine</a> and is now <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-vaccine/south-africa-sells-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccines-to-other-african-countries-idUSKBN2BD0K4">selling its supply to other countries</a>. This vaccine has not yet been approved for use in the US but is still being administered in other countries where B.1.351 is not in widespread circulation.</p>
<p>On the other hand, even the best vaccines are not a perfect defense. Health officials have observed a number of “<a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22379922/covid-19-breakthrough-infections-after-vaccination-explained?fbclid=IwAR0qAF1q0QHHlPXc2oxG-F8ZafMbYOUh_Kjp7aRzwpN2aF1NxuEc5C20zM4">breakthrough” cases</a> where people still managed to contract Covid-19 after being vaccinated. However, the breakthrough rate is much, much lower among vaccine recipients than the infection rate among unvaccinated people.</p>
<p>And among the breakthrough cases, the illness was much less severe, with most patients reporting mild or no symptoms. This shows that Covid-19 vaccines not only prevent illness but make the illnesses that do occur much less dangerous, downgrading the disease from a life-threatening malady to a minor annoyance for most people.</p>
<p>“We have to change our definition of Covid-19 experience [away] from being infected,” said <a href="https://nybloodcenter.org/lindsley-f-kimball-research-institute/investigators/larry-luchsinger-phd/">Larry Luchsinger</a>, vice president and director of research operations at the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute at the New York Blood Center. “The conversation has to change back to ‘how severe was your reaction.’”</p>
<p>Given that most Covid-19 vaccines remain strong against variants, it’s not clear yet whether we will need booster doses for vaccines or if vaccines will need to be reformulated. For example, a recent study just found that the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is still <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2104974">effective against the B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 variants</a>, albeit with reduced efficacy.</p>
<p>That could change as more variants arise or if it turns out that immunity to Covid-19 declines faster than the rate of the virus in circulation. And the approach may be different depending on whether someone received a vaccine or gained immunity from a prior infection.</p>
<p>“Recent evidence suggests that, at least for people that had been previously naturally infected, vaccination confers a high level of neutralizing antibodies that can neutralize even the variants of concern,” Hatziioannou said. “This to me suggests that repeated exposure to the antigen could be potentially advantageous and I would be in favor of booster shots.”</p>
<p>Part of the challenge is that Covid-19 has only been around for just over a year, so scientists don’t have a good handle on how long immunity will last from a vaccine or from a previous infection. Experiences with past coronaviruses do show that immunity can last for several years. If the Covid-19 pandemic is sufficiently controlled before immunity fades, boosters may not be necessary.</p>
<p>An advantage of several of the Covid-19 vaccines is that they can be easily and quickly modified. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/12/18/22188715/moderna-vaccine-covid-19-fda-emergency-use-authorization-coronavirus">Moderna vaccine</a> and the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22167841/fda-vaccine-approval-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-eua-coronavirus">Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine</a> are based on a molecule called <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/8/13/21359025/coronavirus-vaccine-covid-19-moderna-oxford-mrna-adenovirus">mRNA</a>. It carries instructions for making the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/29/22238591/johnson-and-johnson-jnj-vaccine-effective-safety-one-dose-fda">Johnson & Johnson vaccine</a> and the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22206498/uk-approves-astrazeneca-vaccine-oxford-covid-19-coronavirus">Oxford/AstraZeneca</a> vaccine use a modified adenovirus to carry DNA that codes for the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.</p>
<p>Human cells read that DNA or mRNA genetic information and make the spike protein. The immune system then detects the spike protein and starts to mount a response. To modify these vaccines, one only needs to alter the genetic instructions, which can be done within days.</p>
<p>Vaccine manufacturers are currently studying booster doses — an extra dose of the same vaccine — as well as reformulated vaccines to target specific variants. Moderna, for instance, has already reported early results that show its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/tweaked-moderna-vaccine-neutralises-covid-variants-in-trials">modified vaccine neutralizes</a> the P.1 and B.1.351 variants. For its part, the FDA has also <a href="https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-issues-policies-guide-medical-product-developers-addressing-virus">cleared the way</a> to deploy new formulations of Covid-19 vaccines so that they don’t have to go through the same tedious and expensive clinical trials process to get approval.</p>
<p>Only if we let them.</p>
<p>Vaccination remains the most powerful way to corral Covid-19, but it’s only one component in a suite of public health tactics. Until the vast majority of people are immune, wearing face masks, proper ventilation, and social distancing will also be needed, depending on the specific situation. Genetic surveillance is also critical to staying ahead of the variants.</p>
<p>The goal is to get enough of the population immune to Covid-19 such that the virus can’t spread easily. That threshold is known as herd immunity, and for Covid-19, it may take between <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/health/covid-herd-immunity-vaccine.html">70 and 80 percent</a> of the population to become immune. And vaccination helps ensure that if cases do occur, they remain mild and there is adequate capacity in the health system to deal with them.</p>
<p>However, herd immunity isn’t a fixed line. It can change depending on the particular variant in circulation and the susceptibility of the population. And it can change from place to place depending on the level of immunity in a given region.</p>
<p>Right now, the US is shifting away from vaccinating the willing to vaccinating those that may be more reluctant. Immunizing those holdouts may end up being the critical factor in drawing down the pandemic. But if they remain vulnerable, that could allow the virus to continue to circulate and spawn new outbreaks.</p>
<p>The biggest threat, though, remains the ongoing and unchecked spread of Covid-19 across many parts of the world. These cases are not just an enormous human tragedy but the surge in infections threatens to undermine precious gains against the disease.</p>
<p>And the current pace of vaccination is alarmingly low. Estimates show that it will take until 2023 to vaccinate some countries against Covid-19. If the pandemic drags on that long, the whole world will remain at risk. As economies reopen and international travel picks back up, controlling the spread of Covid-19 in other countries will become even more important as the chances of another variant spreading will increase. That’s why ending the crisis as we know it demands a global lens, with a coordinated international effort to vaccinate the world and to reach the most vulnerable.</p>
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Was Liz Cheney too honest?

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<p>House Republicans are preparing to remove Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) from her leadership position — for the crime of reiterating that she strongly condemns former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election result.</p>
<p>Back in February, the House GOP batted down an initial effort to oust Cheney from her role as the No. 3 House Republican for the same reason. She survived easily, in a closed-door, secret ballot <a href="https://www.axios.com/house-republicans-vote-keep-cheney-leadership-7a1807b4-e16f-4185-ae28-56259cfba7a7.html">vote of 145 to 61</a>. Cheney’s views have not changed since then. The problem now is just that she’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/26/rep-liz-cheney-not-ruling-out-2024-presidential-bid/">kept talking about those views</a>.</p>
<p>“The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE,” Cheney <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1389225154639695881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1389225154639695881%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=about%3Asrcdoc">tweeted Monday</a>, referring to Trump’s false claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him.</p>
<p>Cheney’s tweet was just one of several recent statements that have annoyed Republicans who think accurately describing Trump’s attempted election theft is unhelpful for the party’s message, given that most GOP voters incorrectly believe the election was stolen from Trump. As a result, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has said he is “fed up” with Cheney, and is <a href="https://www.axios.com/iz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy-hot-mic-9ac0f8b7-c4ab-4c26-9d1d-1466505ae10b.html">backing a bid</a> from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to replace her. Cheney’s ouster is now viewed as near-certain. (Cheney isn’t backing down, as she made clear <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/05/liz-cheney-republican-party-turning-point/">in an op-ed published Wednesday</a>.)</p>
<p>Some Democrats have claimed that every Republican who refuses to back Trump’s bogus election fraud narrative is now being purged from the party. Things are not quite so simple — not yet, at least. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who also harshly condemned Trump’s actions <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/mitch-mcconnell-senate-speech-on-election-confirmation-transcript-january-6">on January 6</a>, remains ensconced as Republican leader in the Senate, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-10/trump-touts-appeal-to-new-voters-as-path-for-gop-return-to-power">despite the former president’s urging</a> of senators to dump him.</p>
<p>But McConnell’s own behavior reveals the limits of what’s acceptable. He faced his own grumblings of discontent <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/16/johnson-attacks-mcconnell-trump-impeachment-469126">within his conference</a> as he criticized Trump, and he eventually <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/13/politics/mitch-mcconnell-acquit-trump/index.html">voted to acquit</a> the former president during his second impeachment trial. Since then, McConnell has been careful and guarded about his comments on Trump, and he’s <a href="https://twitter.com/JulieNBCNews/status/1389966808724160515">fully on board</a> with the GOP strategy of <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/548061-mcconnell-seeks-to-end-feud-with-trump">moving on</a> to focus on criticizing the excesses of the Biden administration and trying to win in 2022.</p>
<p>The problem is that, with the supposedly “reasonable” Republicans deeming it gauche to point out that Trump’s claims of a stolen election are nonsense, those claims just keep spreading unchecked in conservative spaces (as seen in the troubling <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/liz-cheney-objecting-to-electoral-college-votes-sets-exceptionally-dangerous-precedent/">Arizona election “audit”</a>).</p>
<p>And yet, while the media and Democrats may love a doomed principled stand, if Republicans who do speak out against Trump’s lies quickly see their careers implode and get replaced by Trump loyalists, it’s hard to see how they’re helping much — because they won’t be around anymore to temper the GOP’s response to a future electoral crisis.</p>
<p>Cheney, the daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, was a rising star in the House GOP. Having entered Congress just four years ago, she’d already risen to become conference chair, making her the third-highest ranking Republican in the House, and she <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479265-cheneys-decision-not-to-run-for-senate-sparks-speaker-chatter">was viewed as</a> a potential future House speaker or even presidential candidate.</p>
<p>Then Donald Trump started trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Making false claims of massive voter fraud, Trump tried to get Republican officials in key states not to certify legitimate Biden victories. When those efforts failed, he moved on to an attempt to get congressional Republicans to reject those state results on the day Congress would count Electoral College votes: January 6.</p>
<p>In the days before the storming of the Capitol, Cheney recoiled at Trump’s behavior. She wrote a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/liz-cheney-objecting-to-electoral-college-votes-sets-exceptionally-dangerous-precedent/">21-page memo</a> to House Republicans saying there was “no appropriate basis” for rejecting state results, and that a move to do so would “set an exceptionally dangerous precedent.” Then, when audio leaked of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/4/22211984/trump-raffensperger-georgia-hawley-cruz-election">a Trump call</a> in which he pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes for him, Cheney <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/4/22211984/trump-raffensperger-georgia-hawley-cruz-election">said</a> it was “deeply troubling.”</p>
<p>Then, on January 6, Trump gave his infamous speech on the Ellipse (in which he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cheney-trump-house-impeach/2021/01/12/648c677a-54d2-11eb-a08b-f1381ef3d207_story.html">criticized Cheney by name</a>), and his supporters broke into the Capitol afterward. “A violent mob attacked the United States Capitol to obstruct the process of our democracy and stop the counting of presidential electoral votes,” Cheney said in <a href="https://twitter.com/betsy_klein/status/1349123672007651329/photo/1">a statement the following week</a>. “The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.” She added: “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution. I will vote to impeach the President.”</p>
<p>Cheney’s political future has been in question since then, with Trump vowing to back a primary challenger against her in 2022.</p>
<p>But as mentioned above, Republicans overwhelmingly opted to keep Cheney in her leadership post the first time she was challenged, in early February. What’s happened since then is that she’s kept on being the skunk at the garden party.</p>
<p>The current drama was kicked off early last week, during the House GOP’s policy retreat in Orlando. Cheney made headlines <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/26/rep-liz-cheney-not-ruling-out-2024-presidential-bid/">by opining</a> to a New York Post reporter that anyone who supported Trump’s effort not to certify the 2020 election result isn’t fit to be the GOP’s presidential nominee. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/26/mccarthy-cheney-gop-484756">Politico’s Melanie Zanona reported</a> that House Republicans began “buzzing about Cheney” at the retreat, viewing her as “an unwelcome distraction” from the party’s message, and McCarthy said that leaders need to be part of “one team.”</p>
<p>Cheney’s fist bump with President Joe Biden during his address to Congress a few days later didn’t help matters, but things really intensified Monday when Trump issued a statement saying the “Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020” should be known as “THE BIG LIE” — trying to turn his critics’ rhetoric back on them, by insisting Biden’s win was the lie. Cheney then shot back on Twitter:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system.</p>
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1389225154639695881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<p>The next day, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a Fox News appearance that he’s heard a lot of <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1389568635031724038">criticism of Cheney</a>, and then told the host on a hot mic that he’s “had it” with Cheney, <a href="https://www.axios.com/iz-cheney-kevin-mccarthy-hot-mic-9ac0f8b7-c4ab-4c26-9d1d-1466505ae10b.html">according to Axios</a>. He claimed the problem is not her views on the election, it’s that her leadership role requires her to be a team player and put disagreements with her fellow Republicans aside, rather than foregrounding them. Cheney’s spokesperson <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1389599500994596874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1389599500994596874%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=about%3Asrcdoc">fired back</a>: “This is about whether the Republican Party is going to perpetuate lies about the 2020 election and attempt to whitewash what happened on Jan 6. Liz will not do that.”</p>
<p>And that proved to be that. Leaks poured out suggesting Cheney was doomed, and Stefanik (a rising star herself who has proven eager to defend Trump <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/11/19/20966940/elise-stefanik-impeachment-hearing-donald-trump-adam-schiff">at key moments</a>) decided to make a play for her job. By Wednesday, McCarthy, House minority whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Trump had all endorsed Stefanik, apparently making her victory in the coming House GOP vote — and Cheney’s effective excommunication — inevitable.</p>
<p>Naturally, the response from many Democrats has been to condemn the awful intolerance of the Republican Party and the cravenness of its leaders, and to praise those rare few who tell the truth, like Cheney.</p>
<p>There is a practical problem here, though. If Cheney tells the truth, is run out of the GOP for it, and is replaced as Wyoming’s representative by a hardcore Trumpist who’d try and overturn the 2024 election — how does that improve things?</p>
<p>The fact looming over all this is that most Republican voters <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/11/22225531/joe-biden-trump-capitol-inauguration">really do believe</a> Democrats stole the election, because they’ve bought into Trump’s alternate reality. Most elected Republicans know that’s not true, but many publicly pretend otherwise for political reasons. (Even though many Republicans backed Trump in their public rhetoric and cast votes in favor of his doomed challenges, the lopsided secret ballot vote in Cheney’s favor back in February <a href="https://www.axios.com/house-republicans-vote-keep-cheney-leadership-7a1807b4-e16f-4185-ae28-56259cfba7a7.html">indicates</a> there was broader agreement with her in private among the House GOP.)</p>
<p>As experience has repeatedly shown, if you’re a Republican politician who becomes viewed as an enemy of Trump, your own voters won’t have your back. Vocal Trump critics like former Sens. Jeff Flake and Bob Corker retired rather than face Republican primary voters again. Another, Rep. Mark Sanford, lost his primary. A fourth, Rep, Justin Amash, quit the party to avoid that fate, and then decided not to run for another term.</p>
<p>Surviving as an elected Republican who has deep disagreements with Trump requires diplomacy and strategy. This is easier in the Senate, where there are six-year terms, than in the House, where lawmakers can be primaried every two years.</p>
<p>Notably, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), a one-time “Never Trumper,” silenced practically any criticism he had of Trump in the year or so before his 2020 primary. Once his reelection was in the books (and his next one wasn’t until 2026), he was emboldened to speak out again, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/1/8/22220840/sasse-trump-capitol-storming-impeachment">revealing important information</a> about Trump’s January 6 conduct and voting to convict him at his second impeachment trial. It’s easy to call Sasse craven, but if he’d spoken out and lost his primary, that would’ve been one fewer senator holding Trump accountable.</p>
<p>It’s important to note why, as messy as things got last winter, Trump <a href="https://www.vox.com/22230929/trump-coup-why-failed-capitol-storming">never got particularly close</a> to actually overturning the election result. It’s because, despite the public rhetoric and doomed votes from many in the GOP, most Republicans in key positions — governors, state officials, state legislature leaders, most senators, and the vice president — did not in fact use the powers of their offices to help Trump steal the election, even though Republican voters largely wanted them to do so. The elites rejected their voters’ preferences in favor of adhering to the law, the facts, and democratic norms.</p>
<p>McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, was among them. At the key moment, he opposed Trump’s effort to get Congress to overturn the election results. Despite conspicuous silence as the Georgia elections hung in the balance, on January 6 (before the rioters broke into the Capitol) he <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/mitch-mcconnell-senate-speech-on-election-confirmation-transcript-january-6">stood up for democracy</a>, saying his vote to uphold the outcome would be “the most important vote I’ve ever cast.” And, partly because of the signal he sent, Republican senators voted overwhelmingly to reject Trump allies’ challenges to the Arizona and Pennsylvania election results.</p>
<p>Of course, Republicans who do stand up to Trump at the proper time may well be dooming their careers anyway — as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/23/2022-elections-secretary-of-state-471273">may have</a>. But Raffensperger’s defense of the Georgia results as legitimate served a very important function last year. If a more unscrupulous actor were in that position and proved pliable to Trump’s pressures, things could have gotten significantly uglier. And if Raffensperger had spent much of the previous years criticizing Trump and lost his 2018 primary to a Trump loyalist, well, he wouldn’t have been around to play that role in 2020.</p>
<p>To preserve American democracy, the Republican Party needs elites who will be willing to act to defend it at key moments. The uncomfortable reality is that, for those elites to hold on to their jobs, they may need to do a whole lot of lying or at least hold their tongues <em>before</em> those key moments. Otherwise, they will be purged and replaced with Trump true believers or cynical opportunists — ensuring that, if and when the next electoral crisis comes around, no one will be left who will be willing to do the right thing.</p>
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Anti-vaxxers aren’t the cause of America’s dropping vaccine rates

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<p>America’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout has dwindled in recent weeks, plummeting from a previous high of nearly 3.4 million doses administered a day, on average, in mid-April to <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-12-20..latest&pickerSort=desc&pickerMetric=total_vaccinations_per_hundred&Metric=Vaccine+doses&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~USA">around 2.2 million a day</a> this week.</p>
<p>The best analogy I’ve heard to explain the trend comes from Brown University School of Public Health dean Ashish Jha: Think of what happens when a new iPhone is released.</p>
<p>When a new model comes out, some people are so enthusiastic about it that they’ll line up overnight to get it. Those superfans aren’t the only people who ever buy iPhones, but they cause a rush of initial demand. That’s similar to many Americans who’ve gotten the vaccine so far: They got shots the moment they were eligible, even if, for some, it meant staying on hold on the phone for hours, constantly refreshing clunky, overloaded websites for days, or driving for hours out of their way to get a shot.</p>
<p>Now, with <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations">about 57 percent</a> of the adult population having had at least one shot, America has to reach the less enthused — ranging from those who want a vaccine but don’t want to go too out of their way to get one to people who say they don’t want to get a vaccine at all.</p>
<p>The remaining unvaccinated people aren’t all truly hesitant or resistant to getting vaccinated. Think of enthusiasm for a vaccine as a spectrum, with some Americans very excited to get the shot, others not willing at all, and many in between. The US eventually will need to make inroads with the hard noes — but for now, the low-hanging fruit are the people in between. They might readily take the vaccine if it was right in front of them, but can’t call off work to get it or don’t want to have to set aside hours of their day solely to get a shot.</p>
<p>“There’s a tendency to focus on who is hesitant and who doesn’t want to get this vaccine,” Liz Hamel, director of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, told me. “But in almost every segment [of the population], there’s a large group of people who really want to get this vaccine or at least somewhat open to getting it.”</p>
<p>This spectrum is clear in the polling. According to <a href="https://osf.io/j5hf2/">the most recent survey</a> in April from the Covid States Project, 52 percent of people were already vaccinated, 11 percent wanted to get the shot as soon as possible, 7 percent said they would do so after at least some people they know did, 12 percent said they would after most people they know did, and 18 percent said they would not get the vaccine. That’s a lot of people among the unvaccinated — nearly 1 in 5 of all respondents — who aren’t exactly enthusiastic about the vaccine, but also don’t fit the mold of the unpersuadable or anti-vaxxers.</p>
<p>And even the more resistant may not be <em>that</em> resistant: In <a href="https://khn.org/news/article/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-drops-among-americans-new-kff-survey-shows/">the Kaiser Family Foundation’s surveys</a>, more than 30 percent of the hard noes say they would take a vaccine if it were required.</p>
<p>The vaccine enthusiasm spectrum has also changed over time. In Kaiser’s surveys, the hard noes have remained pretty consistent — around 20 percent of adults. But from January to March, the “wait and see” group shrank, from 31 percent to 17 percent, as they shifted to the “already gotten” and “as soon as possible” categories.</p>
<p>All of this suggests that America’s vaccine goals are very doable. It’s possible to convert people from a “wait and see” attitude to getting vaccinated. And the case for focusing on persuadable people is strong: Based on data from Israel, the US could start to see a steep decline in Covid-19 cases — allowing more things to return to normal safely — <a href="https://www.vox.com/22400322/vaccines-herd-immunity-coronavirus-israel">once about 60 percent of the population is vaccinated</a>. That’s totally feasible at a national level even if the 1 in 5 Americans who are hard noes remain resistant, although state-by-state variation means that some places will have a harder road than others.</p>
<p>For now, experts say the best path forward is to make it easier to get vaccinated. As access improves, the country can then try incentives, pushing people a bit further to get the shot. If that doesn’t work, then policymakers should consider moving from the carrot to the stick — and eventually, in some cases, perhaps mandating vaccines.</p>
<p>“It’s not just about convincing people with messages or changing their attitudes,” Hamel said, citing her organization’s surveys. “It’s also making sure that the vaccine is available to them, that there are policies in place to make sure they can get it.”</p>
<p>Here’s how each of those steps could work:</p>
<p><strong>1) Improved access to vaccines:</strong> There are still a lot of people — likely around 1 in 5 of the unvaccinated, based on the Covid States Project’s survey — who want to get vaccinated as soon as possible. For these people, the concern isn’t so much resistance as it is access.</p>
<p>To date, the bulk of vaccination in America has required an appointment, typically at a place someone would have to go out of her way to get to. Moving forward, the country should make a greater effort to meet people where they are — in all health care settings, including doctor’s offices, and at places of work, worship, and entertainment. Vaccinators could even meet people in their homes, with mobile vaccination vans in underserved neighborhoods or perhaps <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/the-people-who-wont-get-the-vaccine/618765/">a DoorDash-like system</a> for vaccinations in people’s houses.</p>
<p>Vaccinators could also do away with appointment requirements and open up walk-in hours, including outside traditional business hours, enabling people with hectic schedules to walk into, say, their local pharmacy or church to get a shot on the spot.</p>
<p><strong>2) More incentives for vaccines:</strong> Over the past few weeks, local and state governments have offered new incentives to get a shot, from <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorBowser/status/1389636383443197954">free beer</a> to <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/04/27/991173625/west-virginia-will-pay-young-people-100-to-get-vaccinated-against-covid-19">$100</a>. Experts say this could work: If the problem for some people is that they don’t want to go out of their way <em>just</em> to get a shot, maybe they’ll be willing to go out of their way if there’s an extra reward, with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/upshot/vaccine-incentive-experiment.html">a recent study</a> supporting the idea. But there’s also a concern this could backfire — people might <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22160174/pay-people-covid-19-vaccine-stimulus">question</a> why an incentive would be necessary if the vaccines are really so great — so there’s a balancing act to strike in the messaging around such incentives.</p>
<p><strong>3) Vaccine passports and mandates:</strong> Once there’s widespread access and incentives in place, areas facing continued resistance to getting a shot could try to push people to get vaccinated with some kind of mandate. This doesn’t have to be a statewide law that applies to everyone, and could take several other forms instead: Restaurants and bars could ask for vaccine passports to get into their venues. Employers could tell people they have to get a vaccine to get back to work. Once kids are eligible, schools could require them to get the vaccine, as they do with shots for other diseases. Based on <a href="https://khn.org/news/article/covid-vaccine-hesitancy-drops-among-americans-new-kff-survey-shows/">the Kaiser Family Foundation’s surveys</a>, this could get more than 30 percent of the hard noes to get the vaccine.</p>
<p>Some localities and states will have to act differently, depending on their unvaccinated populations. Particularly in Republican-dominated states, there are more hard noes, largely because they believe the threat of Covid-19 has been exaggerated. Policymakers in these areas should still try to improve access and incentives first — after all, <a href="https://civiqs.com/results/coronavirus_vaccine?annotations=true&uncertainty=true&zoomIn=true&party=Republican">polls</a> show about half of Republicans either have gotten or want to get vaccinated — but they might have to shift to sticks sooner to make a real dent in their unvaccinated population.</p>
<p>All of this should be coupled with extensive messaging campaigns to persuade people to get the shot. What works will vary locally — what succeeds in predominantly Black, Democratic communities won’t necessarily work in predominantly white, Republican areas. <a href="https://psyarxiv.com/f9jq5">A recent study</a> found, for example, that Republicans respond much better to fellow Republicans. Persuasion campaigns will have to respond to these kinds of realities on the ground.</p>
<p>“It’s tricky,” Emily Brunson, a medical anthropologist at Texas State University, told me. “There needs to be a lot more social outreach to people — and I think some real clarification that this is how we get out of this [pandemic and the associated restrictions].” She added, “But there’s not a silver bullet for this.”</p>
<p>If done correctly, America could get back relatively close to normal. Even at current vaccination rates, the country is on its way to fully vaccinate at least 60 percent of its population as early as June or July. But that will rely on keeping the vaccine rollout going at current speeds, which may not be possible if policymakers don’t change things up soon.</p>
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America’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout has dwindled in recent weeks, plummeting from a previous high of nearly 3.4 million doses administered a...

“Talk to your doctor” might be key to easing concerns about the vaccine

<p>Here are four important words in the next phase of <a href="https://www.vox.com/21569964/covid-19-vaccines-news-and-updates">America’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign</a>: “Talk to your doctor.”</p>
<p>The US is reaching a tipping point in its vaccination drive. There will soon be more shots available than people coming to get them, if there aren’t already. “Most states appear to be at or near ... the point at which their supply is outstripping demand,” the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Jennifer Kates, Anna Rouw, and Josh Michaud wrote <a href="https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/supply-vs-demand-which-states-are-reaching-their-covid-19-vaccine-tipping-points/">in a new analysis</a>.</p>
<p>The easy part is winding down. Americans who were able and eager to get the vaccines have had weeks to get their shot. Now comes the hard work: persuading people who can be persuaded to get vaccinated, and reaching the disadvantaged patients who have still lacked easy access to a vaccine.</p>
<p>Primary care doctors say they can play an important role in meeting both goals. <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-experiences-vaccine-access-information-needs/">Surveys</a> show people who are taking a “wait and see” approach to the vaccine can be convinced by their doctor that it’s safe and effective. Even doctors who are unable to give a vaccine themselves are more likely to know which patients may need extra assistance.</p>
<p>“We need to be part of the plan,” said Ada Stewart, a doctor in South Carolina and president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, adding that she was grateful the Biden administration had been engaging more with physicians. “I wish it had happened sooner.”</p>
<p>How to distribute and administer vaccines is a state-by-state decision, but so far states have largely focused their vaccine campaigns on mass sites, mobile clinics, and commercial pharmacies. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/health/covid-doctors-vaccine.html">reported in early February</a> that primary care doctors were already frustrated they were not being utilized more in the vaccination drive.</p>
<p>That may finally be changing, but it can still be a slow process. “There is not that steady stream or supply of vaccine that has trickled down to make it available at multiple sites,” says George Abraham, a Massachusetts doctor and president of the American College of Physicians.</p>
<p>In Boston, Abraham said, thousands of doses are still being targeted to mass sites such as those set up in Fenway Park and Gillette Stadium. But the state is shifting its strategy, setting a goal to close mass vaccination sites and move doses to physician offices and community clinics by the end of June.</p>
<p>The Biden White House recently announced its plans to push more vaccines into the community, trying to reach Americans where they are. The goal, experts say, should be for every contact with the health system to come with the offer of a vaccine. Achieving the necessary level of immunizations may still require more, but it’s a start as we shift into this more difficult stage of the campaign.</p>
<p>“New strategies are likely needed,” Kates told me. “The more touch points, the better, and since we know ... people would be most comfortable going to their doctor’s office to get vaccinated, these will be important touch points.”</p>
<p>Primary care doctors are already a valuable vanguard in getting Americans their routine vaccinations. They traditionally provide about half of all adult immunizations in the US, per <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/health/covid-doctors-vaccine.html">the New York Times</a>. But physicians have arguably been underutilized in the Covid-19 effort.</p>
<p>The logic of massive vaccination sites was sound early in the campaign, Abraham says. Capable of administering thousands of doses per day, such sites are more efficient, and when there was more constricted supply, it made sense to focus those doses on the locations that would deliver the most bang for the buck.</p>
<p>But those temporary sites were not for everybody. We were asking some people to drive 75 miles or more one way to get a vaccine. Abraham gave the example of one of his patients, an 86-year-old Latino man with lung disease who relies on a constant supply of oxygen. He can drive, but he wouldn’t be able to drive to the mass site, wait in line, and then drive back without running out of air. The patient also doesn’t have internet access, making it harder to sign up for an appointment unless he was willing to wait on hold over the phone.</p>
<p>Physicians can play a critical role now, Abraham says, in “identifying people who are economically disadvantaged [or] have more difficulty getting to appointments, and how they could best be served.”</p>
<p>They can also persuade. Among people who hadn’t yet gotten a Covid-19 vaccine, their doctor’s office was the place where they said they were most likely to get a shot, according to <a href="https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-covid-19-vaccine-monitor-experiences-vaccine-access-information-needs/">a February survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation</a>. Black and Hispanic Americans were both substantially more likely to say they would get the vaccine from their doctor than at a community health clinic or mass vaccination site.</p>
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<p>Physicians are highly trusted by the American public: In a January 2019 poll from <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/13/amid-coronavirus-threat-americans-generally-have-a-high-level-of-trust-in-medical-doctors/">the Pew Research Center</a>, 74 percent of people said they had a mostly favorable view of medical doctors.</p>
<p>“Patients trust their physician,” Abraham said. “They look to their physician for that endorsement that it’s safe to take the vaccine. That trust is crucial to overcoming the little vaccine hesitancy folks might have.”</p>
<p>With the harder-to-reach populations, it makes sense to make the vaccine available wherever they may come into contact with the health system. Already, as <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/covid-vaccine-sites-478233">Politico reported in March</a>, the Biden administration has concluded people are more likely to get the vaccine at their local pharmacy than a temporary site.</p>
<p>Now the White House is trying to expand the vaccine campaign even farther into communities. Biden is urging pharmacies to offer walk-up appointments and has announced $500 million in new funding to support community health clinics and other local organizations in expanding their vaccine drives.</p>
<p>The FDA <a href="https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/05/04/pfizer-covid-vaccine-children-050421">is also considering</a> an application from Pfizer to relax the stringent storage standards for its vaccine. If approved, that would make it easier for doctors to handle Pfizer doses, which currently require ultra-cold refrigeration that many offices don’t have.</p>
<p>Finishing the vaccine drive is not as simple as distributing doses to doctors all over the country. Storage is currently a challenge, especially for the Pfizer vaccine. Some clinics do not have the space to do patient monitoring (15 minutes post-vaccine for most people, or 30 minutes for those with a history of allergic reactions).</p>
<p>And some of the same disadvantaged people who couldn’t sign up for or get to a mass vaccination site might not make regular contact with a doctor. Black and Hispanic people are <a href="https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/practices/many-americans-don-t-have-a-primary-care-doctor">much less likely</a> than white people to say they have a primary care physician in the first place; there are also economic disparities to consider, as cost is one factor that keeps people from the doctor.</p>
<p>That’s why some public health experts are already thinking beyond primary care physicians, though they agree they could be useful in the next phase of vaccinations.</p>
<p>“The challenges moving forward are about how to reach those who don’t routinely engage with any health care system and those who are hesitant to vaccinate for any reason,” Kumi Smith, who studies epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota, told me. “Increasing vaccine points at every corner of the health care system may help, but may not get us all the way.”</p>
<p>The community health investments proposed by the Biden administration could be valuable, putting more resources into trusted messengers who meet people where they are. Employers could also play a vital role.</p>
<p>Kates, who recently spoke at the US Chamber of Commerce, told me she heard from business leaders who were interested in receiving vaccine allocations directly from the federal government.</p>
<p>“That of course raises challenges,” she said, “but it does seem that employers are an untapped resource and will become more important over time.”</p>
<p>The final stage of the US vaccination drive should be an all-of-the-above approach. Make it as easy as possible for somebody to get a vaccine. That could start with putting the vaccine in the hands of doctors whom patients trust.</p>
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source <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22419743/covid-19-vaccine-appointment-primary-care-doctors-office">https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22419743/covid-19-vaccine-appointment-primary-care-doctors-office</a>

vox “Talk to your doctor” might be key to easing concerns about the vaccine

Here are four important words in the next phase of America’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign : “Talk to your doctor.” The US is reaching a ti...