Hilary Brueck — Business Insider May 13, 2020
- The World Health Organization on Wednesday said no one “can predict when or if this disease will disappear,” but said that a vaccine against the coronavirus is the “one great hope” at eliminating the virus.
- The WHO’s Executive Director of Health Emergencies said that he’s “cynical” that the world will muster the “will” to vaccinate against COVID-19, even if and when a vaccine is available.
- “We have some perfectly effective vaccines on this planet that we have not used effectively for diseases we could eliminate and eradicate, and we haven’t done it,” the WHO’s Mike Ryan said.
- In the absence of a vaccine, the WHO’s chief scientist, Soumya Swaminathan, estimated it could take four to five years to get COVID-19 under control.
In November 2019, before the world had even heard of the novel coronavirus, 14 children on the Pacific island nation of Samoa were hooked up to ventilators. They were each fighting for their lives against a different, but also highly infectious viral disease: the measles.
During that outbreak, 81 Samoans died, and they were all deaths that could have been prevented with a safe and effective vaccine.
It’s this anecdote, among so many others of people who’ve died because they opted not to get their recommended shots, that has the World Health Organization worried that we may never get rid of COVID-19, even if and when there is a vaccine.
“I don’t think anyone can predict when or if this disease will disappear,” the WHO’s Executive Director of Health Emergencies Mike Ryan said during a press conference on Wednesday.
“We do have one great hope, if we do find a highly effective vaccine that we can distribute to everyone who needs it in the world. We may have a shot at eliminating this virus. But that vaccine will have to be available. It’ll have to be highly effective. It will have to be made available to everyone, and we will have to use it.”
Ryan’s curmudgeonly assessment came just hours after the WHO’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told the Financial Times that it may take “four to five” years to “control” the coronavirus, adding there is “no crystal ball” to know if things will get better or worse in this outbreak, or whether we’ll be able to develop an effective vaccine at all.
Even getting a vaccine on the market, Ryan agreed, is still a “massive moonshot.”
“This virus may never go away,” he said.
Most people in the world have not yet been exposed to COVID-19, which means the world is still in a very vulnerable spot.
“The current number of people in our population who’ve been infected is actually relatively low,” Ryan said, alluding to recent blood tests being taken around the world to look for antibodies, which so far (though the tests are still somewhat unreliable) suggest less than 10% of the world has been exposed to the coronavirus.
In the absence of a vaccine, then, it could take many years for the disease to settle “into an endemic phase,” Ryan said, where many people have been exposed, and it’s circulating like other seasonal viruses do.
In the US, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where scientists are at work developing a COVID-19 vaccine, told members of the US Senate on Tuesday that a vaccine will certainly not be ready by the time university students head back to class this fall.
“Even at the top speed we’re going, we don’t see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals to get back to school this term,” Fauci said.
If a vaccine does become available in the years ahead, there are also plenty of political, financial, logistical, and human-scale issues to solve about how it will be distributed fairly and cheaply, and whether there will even be enough glass vials and needles to go around.
“Science can come up with a vaccine,” Ryan said, “but if someone’s going to make it, then we’ve got to make enough of it that everyone can get a dose of it, and we’ve got to be able to deliver that, and people have got to want to take that vaccine. Every single one of those steps is fraught with challenges.”
Only about half (53%) of US adults aged 35-44 said definitively that “Yes, I would get vaccinated” against COVID-19, if a vaccine were to become available, according to a Morning Consult poll taken earlier this month.
Likewise, the percentage of US adults who feel “very comfortable” with vaccinations is declining, and the share of people who say they’re “not at all comfortable” with vaccines is on the rise, even since January, in the midst of this devastating pandemic, according to a CivicScience survey.
“Forgive me if I’m cynical, but we have some perfectly effective vaccines on this planet that we have not used effectively for diseases we could eliminate and eradicate, and we haven’t done it,” Ryan said. “We’ve lacked the will, we’ve lacked the determination to invest in health systems to deliver that, we’ve lacked the capacity to sustain primary health care, at the front end.”
Bullshit propaganda.
The measles outbreak happened within a month of a re -vaccination campaign. Prior that there was no measles problem.
This shows yet again that MMR vaccines cause measles outbreaks.
https://realnewsaustralia.com/2019/12/09/samoan-measles-outbreak-whats-really-going-on/
The virus hoax is beginning to flag. The narrative is falling apart. The numbers that have been reported are not tenable when under scrutiny. Masks are dangerous according to many virologists. Social distancing has no scientific backing and is a waste of time. The lockdown has created more deaths than the virus, and will prove to be the biggest mistake many Governments have made. No-one needs a toxic vaccine, nor a certificate proving they are healthy. It is all a propaganda agenda, which will backfire on the Global elites.
The low level of danger to the public from this virus is confirmed by Chris Whitty, UK Government Health spokesperson in a press conference given on 30th April. It is still online.
Why copy-paste mass media / jews media lies and propaganda to here? People come here to avoid jews media lies.
If we want to hear Covid lies we just turn on the TV or read a Jewspaper. By now, just about everyone who is jew-wise knows the “Covid Pandemic” is fake.
Governments have been completely subverted over the past 100 years. Now its to the point where we dare not trust their medical puppets to inject us with their patented pus.
You’re right,Frog. And the title of this article is just an example of the propaganda machine which is intentionally making people who refuse the “vaccine” into the enemy to be hated and ridiculed and seen as the enemy.
“WHO: The coronavirus ‘may never go away’ if clusters of anti-vaxxers oppose a vaccine”
The coronavirus is a bio weapon. Maybe it was designed to be more deadly than it turned out, but that’s not the point. The point was to vaccinate everyone with the mark of the beast. Along with this tracer you will get other components that will adversely impact your immune system, maybe not immediately but sometime in the future. In short get the shot and you get much more than you bargained for.
There will be lots of anti vaxxers that will tell Trump to stick this shot up his ass. Well then the Cov-19 will mutate into Cov-21, more deadly, but hey they tried to save us.
In the U.S.
Dr. Scott Jensen: Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a Covid-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that Covid-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.
https://accountingweekly.com/us-hospitals-getting-paid-to-list-patients-as-covid-19/
MONEY TALKS……NO ONE WALKS…….Need I say more ?!
Yes, this article is total BS, but consider the source! A larger question is why “thetruthseeker” is posting this obvious garbage.
Look at the intro. We introduce the article as “More scare stories to convince us we need to vaccinate”. In other words we posted this article, not to endorse it, but to illustrate a point. Duh! Are you so stupid you cannot see that? Or are you an agent of the elite/Illuminati/government/powers that be?
I saw this article an an example of the MSM propapaganda to mandate vaccinations. I knew from the beginning Rixon Stewart published it as information, not in any way as endorcement. Thetruthseeker is fully aware of the huge dangers of vaccines and chipping as am I.
Thank you for the information. This is one of the three best news sites in the world in my opinion.
Anaughty Mouser
Quite right Rixon Stewart. It SHOULD be obvious to the meanest intelligence why this was posted. Thank you for alerting us to more of the plotting and scheming of the “elite”.