Will new variants in Europe create another COVID-19 wave in the States early next year? Dr. Peter Hotez weighs in on what the future may bring.
Elizabeth Conley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerregarding our pandemic present and possible future. Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, offered acknowledgment that things feel fairly quiet with COVID-19. He pointed out that in Texas, “we’re at around 6 new cases per 100,000, which is among the lowest we’ve been during the entire pandemic.
It was a combination of their interest and also knowing they had capability and knew what they were doing. The last thing you want is to work with someone who doesn’t pay close attention to quality control or quality assurance. Because it doesn’t take much to derail even a good vaccine because of bad perception. I always say, it doesn’t take much to vote a good vaccine off the island if there’s a perception problem.
A: Well, we’ve been playing the long game for a few reasons. The rapid evolution of the variants. Despite what President Biden said on “60 Minutes,” this is not over. It’s just a new Little Shop of Horrors. And that’s going to continue. Q: I worry I sound like a skipping record. But I feel like we should be more humbled by the interconnectivity of the world.
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