While the number of super-strains discovered overseas hits THREE – and CDC predicts up to 420K deaths by mid-January.

• Dr Anthony Fauci says it could take between 70 to 90% herd immunity in the US to end the COVID pandemic 
• Fauci, who initially estimated between 60 to 70 percent for immunity, has gradually been moving the goal posts in recent weeks as it emerged that COVID-19 was becoming more transmissible 
• It is not yet clear how long it will take to reach 90 percent herd immunity given the rate of vaccinations across the country so far 
• December is now the deadliest month of the entire COVID-19 pandemic in the US with 57,700 deaths, which exceeds the 52,000 deaths recorded in the entire month of April 
• At least 3,359 Americans died on Wednesday, marking the third deadliest day of the pandemic so far 
• The number of people hospitalized hit a record 119,463 and there were 228,131 new infections recorded
• In a week where more than one million Americans received the first doses of a vaccine, it has emerged that there are three new mutant COVID-19 strains discovered in the UK, South Africa and Nigeria 
• Fauci has already warned the strain discovered in the UK is likely to have already spread in the US but the CDC said it is still monitoring the strains found in the African countries 

Emily Crane – Daily Mail Dec 24, 2020

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Dr Anthony Fauci now says it could take up to 90 percent herd immunity across the United States to end the COVID-19 pandemic as three mutant strains of the virus are discovered and the CDC predicts up to 420K deaths by mid-January.

Despite initially saying herd immunity could be reached at between 60 to 70 percent, Fauci believes it may now take closer to 90 percent in order for life to return to normal.

Fauci has gradually been moving the goal posts in recent weeks as it emerged that COVID-19 was becoming more transmissible.

He said he didn’t reveal his higher estimates publicly weeks ago because he feared Americans were hesitant about taking the COVID-19 vaccine. The infectious disease expert received his initial dose of the vaccine on live TV this week.

‘When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,’ Fauci told the New York Times. ‘Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ‘I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85.

‘We need to have some humility here. We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.’

The CDC revealed on Wednesday that more than one million Americans have already received a COVID-19 vaccine. It is not yet clear how long it will take to reach 90 percent herd immunity given the rate of vaccinations across the country so far.

Most Americans have been told that it could be six months or more before they are eligible for the vaccine shots as priority is given to healthcare workers, nursing home residents and, in some cases, top government officials.

Despite the US vaccination campaign getting underway this month, December has already become the deadliest month of the entire COVID-19 pandemic.

The CDC is forecasting the death toll could surge even higher and reach 419,000 by mid-January

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Comment – Dec 25, 2020

The only real beneficiaries from claims that new strains of Covid-19 are more easily transmissible are Bill Gates and his vaccine, which has been rushed through development and testing in record time.

It often takes ten to fifteen years to develop and test a new vaccine. Yet the Covid-19 vaccine has been railroaded through in less than a year.

That’s unprecedented.

Why was there such a rush to develop and test a vaccine for a disease that for most healthy adults is little worse than seasonal flu? The only people who are really vulnerable are those with pre-existing conditions and the very old, the very people who are most at risk from severe strains of seasonal cold and flu.

Both the media and politicians are apparently reading from the same script that seems intended to foment panic over Covid-19. When Covid-19 first appeared Professor Neil Ferguson’s claim that it could kill as many as 500,000 was widely publicised.

Of course, nothing like that happened but now the CDC is coming out with similar alarmist forecasts. Are the CDC, and Fauci and Co trying to whip up public alarm over the “pandemic” so that more will get vaccinated?