In an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal on Sunday, a Johns Hopkins medical professor said he believes the U.S. will be able to reach “herd immunity” in a few months time and predicted that “COVID will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life.”
The opinion piece by Dr. Marty Makary cites the recent decline in case rates as evidence that the U.S. is nearing herd immunity. While his findings come as a welcome sign to Americans weary of the pandemic, it stands in stark contrast to views held by top health officials in both the Trump and Biden administrations.
In the Wall Street Journal, Makary noted that new cases of COVID-19 have decreased by 77% in the last six weeks. Indeed, the COVID Tracking Project notes that the seven-day rolling average of daily cases has fallen from nearly 250,000 a day in mid-January to about 64,000 a day as of Sunday.
“As more people have been infected, most of whom have mild or no symptoms, there are fewer Americans left to be infected,” Makary wrote. “At the current trajectory, I expect COVID will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life.”
They need to get the hoax straight
Really , we just mourned a big loss, and are now double masking while being shamed for congregating.
Are we still living in doom or not.