AwLast year, we presented three possible scenarios as to how the pandemic can unfold, and then they can finally declare that it's over. The fairytale scenario was we would reach that point by the end of last year. The optimistic one was, that is, the end of 2021, and the personalistic scenario was that the finish line will be weighing to 22 or possibly 2023. I hate to say it, but it seems like the third version is going to become a reality and auto vital mesh pool. And you are watching the medical features is. As we all get into brace position for the seemingly inevitable next favor arrives, let's take a look at what the end of this year could be like and where the pandemic is realistically heading.
On average, the latest global vaccination rate is more than 34 million dollars per day, and this space. It will take another six months to cover 75 percent of the world's population. And that's still not close to the number required for herd immunity as we head into the fold, we still crash memories from last year. The question is obvious. Meet a delta variant slowly taking over the dominant strain. Can we expect a resurgence as devastating as it was last year to the incident? Let's take a look at Israel, a country that has one of the world's highest levels of vaccination, with 61 percent of its total population fully vaccinated. Mainly print the Fizer vaccine. Despite that, the countries now facing a steep surge of infections in which more than half of the infected are vaccinated, Israel has experienced underscores a few notions for the future out of all the infected, those who have severe or fatal sickness are mostly unvaccinated, but it also seems clear the vaccine blunts the effects of covid. The delta variant proved to be extraordinarily transmissible and capable of circumventing lower levels of unity. This also testifies to the fact that at least Budapest of vaccine immunity decreases with time, initially, two dozens of visors vaccine provided more than 95 percent protection against infection in a new report from Israel's health ministry. Bedtime, that number has fallen to just 64 percent, although I can't emphasize enough that the same report shows, even if you are being infected, the vaccine remained 93 percent effective in preventing hospitalization and serious illness. So basically, we are entering 1 point where a booster shot is a necessity, and they have to learn that preventing the infection is not the marker for rex and effectiveness. But we don't think hospitalization is, and in that area that scenes are still immensely effective and remain our only way out of the pandemic as we head into the fall. I expect a lot of new cases among the unvaccinated. We will see masks and social distancing coming back in a big way with a new race on getting the booster shots out there, and I believe we will see contra leaders getting tougher on those who refuse to get vaccinated. What I don't see happening, though is a full-blown log down like we had before. Just as a reminder, the pandemic only ends when the coronavirus becomes endemic, meaning it is regularly found among the vast majority of people so far, over two hundred and twenty 30 million people have got covid, the rest will have to get it to, but it very much matters how they need to divide us. If they are vaccinated, they have an almost 100 percent chance of beating it like the seasonal flow if they are not vaccinated, though, it's a blind bet. If people get seriously old, they get hospitalized and the word shuts down again. If more and more are vaccinated, this one happen. That's how simple it is. The jury is still out on which countries handle the pandemic right and which ones have not New Zealand was very swift and tough with the lockdown, they only had 27 covid rated that's throughout the whole pandemic, yet herd immunity might not be reachable for them without a large amount of the population getting through the virus. On the other hand, there is freedom, a country that didn't have any restrictions throughout this whole time, yet questions remain whether they're careless and had a huge number of excess deaths as a result, and then there is Israel that used to lead the world in vaccinations. Mainly with the cutting gauge mRNA vaccines. Yet the delta variant was able to poke holes in their defense, and it might have been better to use multiple types of vaccines to have a more diversely vaccinated population. The big question. Of course, is that whether the delta is a final attack on us that we need to beat? Or is there a chance that another mutation will come that will completely nullify our scenes, now I have to put some pressure on the unvaccinated people and say that the answer to this flies entirely on them, CDC director Rochelle Wilensky made a dire prediction that a new, more elusive variant could be just a few mutations away? The fact that the virus mutates is no surprise at all. That's natural selection. It gets a little more transmissible each time, while delta was fascinating because of how much more infectious it turned out to be, and unfortunately, another big evolutionary step can be right on the corner, the more infections we allow to happen among our populace, the more likely changes will happen. That's why scientists and responsible politicians are pressuring beyond vaccinated to get the jets. We can give time and space for the virus to adapt to selective pressures like how the delta did, let me be very clear on this. Most of the current vaccines are targeting the virus's spike protein if that protein changes in a way that the vaccine is no longer able to bind and destroy the virus, many vaccines will be less effective. And we will be back that we were lost in March when this whole nightmare began. In conclusion, there is a huge number of unvaccinated people around the world, and they are directly jeopardizing all our efforts to end the pandemic. The scientific world did something unparalleled with the vaccines, the speed and the effectiveness of this innovation is nothing short of a miracle. Look for the next Nobel prize, right Catalin Carico, yet at the same time, we have failed in communication, people are terrified of what's in the vaccine. While at the same time, they are happy horse medicine, and every day they put their trust in the hands of questionable influencers and bonkers Facebook posts. Dr. Anthony had to say out loud that the covid vaccine does not cause swollen testicles. Thank you, Nikki Minaj, misinformation is looking out of this mess and threatening the progress we have made once again, a new vaccine-resistant variant could be just a few mutations away. Even prediction that our fight against covid could continue till we scared you, imagine what happens if you have to start it all over again personally, I I received death threats and tons of wishes, comments from my videos. Where I encourage people to get the jails, but not everything is a conspiracy. Not everyone has an agenda, or if so, my agenda is to get to the end of this nightmare. And for all of us to be able to go back to our normal lives, that's it. This pandemic won't end overnight, while day by day, we are getting to a better place with time. This whole thing is just going to be immensely more complicated new strains, a booster shot and a combined vaccine that brings the flu and the covid jazz into a single dose are all on the horizon. We need to learn to put our faith at the end of scientists because they are the ones who can help us responsibly navigate this complex landscape, and they also need to be compassionate, and I'm not addressing just those who are sending me that threats, why those who are not willing to take the vaccine are jeopardizing our collective safety. They can have strong individual opinions for not doing. Perhaps they heard some bad things, listen to the bad people, or due to prior experience, have some unfounded fears. Still, we cannot bully our way to her immunity. Just let me ask this question. If you do your research about the covid vaccines, why don't you do the same with bridges? Did architects design bridges in the right? Because if not and you walk over them, they might collapse and you die. What is the difference, vaccines represent the hottest topic these days? Why not any other technology experts made for us, why did vaccines suddenly become the threshold of questioning the boundaries of civilization and the voice of experts. It's simple. We are living in an age of misinformation and out of all the crises that could have happened. A health-related one was the most susceptible to false belief. It's simply bad luck that at the peak of this current era, we have to fight the worst pandemic in a century. As I said. The scientific community pulled off a miracle between the fast development of the vaccine, but they lost sight of who they are making it for. They communicated toward their peers and in their language, asking everyone else to have blind failure. Why they left a lot to interpretation and people did what they do these days best argue and spin the truth, hence, we are facing the good, best to meet your scenario. Covid is going to stay with us for a while. Science has done its part, and it's going to keep doing it, and we can find solace every day as we look around and see how much progress we have made since last year, and hopefully at the end of this long fight. We'll be able to learn the right lessons. It
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