The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles for the war against Covid 19, especially the vaccine. Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: FDA authorizes the drug remdesivir for emergency use in COVID-19 patients
From CNN’s Adrienne Vogt
Science journalist Laurie Garrett has been warning about a pandemic like Covid-19 for decades and predicts the coronavirus pandemic could possibly last for three years.
“Each community and each part of the country has to be ready and know, yes, maybe you got things under control right now in May. Maybe in June. But be ready. It’s coming back again and again,” Garrett, author of “The Coming Plague,” told CNN’s John Berman in an interview.
Garrett said we should look at places like South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, which have been able to stem the pandemic.
“These places have figured out this virus will come in waves. It’s not going to be a giant tsunami that just sweeps over America all uniform all at once, then retreats, then all comes back all at once across America again. It’s going to be more like little brush fires popping up here, there, and everywhere,” she said.
Garrett also slammed US coronavirus policies and the Trump administration’s decision to not implement the Centers for Disease Control’s 17-page draft recommendation for reopening America. “The CDC ought to be in leadership,” she said.
“It’s just madness. We’re acting as if you can wish away an epidemic. You can’t just say, ‘I want the economy going and the virus will cooperate.’ It doesn’t work that way,” Garrett said.
She said that the pandemic has changed the world’s perception of the US.
“Now, we’re the laughingstock of the planet. We’re the only one that refuses to engage with everybody else in a cooperative agreement on developing vaccines and drugs. We’re the only one that says we won’t work with the WHO. And we refuse to pay our dues. And we’re the only one acting like whatever we do today may be different from what we do tomorrow, but it’s what we do, so the heck with the rest of you,” she said. “I can’t even tell you how upsetting this is. This is as if we stood on the sidelines and watched somebody else make the first landing on the moon,” she said.
The idea of testing everyone is not realistic and possibly not necessary, Garrett said, but it needs to be targeted to be effective.
“We’re going to have to do testing that’s really smart, that’s targeted, that follows basic principles of science,” she said. “…We’re not doing any smart testing. There’s only a handful of places in the country where testing is following the kind of scientific principles that means that what the results of what the testing are are valid.”
The best of the Muslim Times’ collection for war against Covid 19:
In this day and age, understanding bacteria and viruses and developing vaccines are national security issues. In my view sizable part of every country’s defense budget should be spent in these pursuits rather than making tanks and other weapons.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says more than 30 countries have asked Japan for favipiravir (Avigan) to fight Covid 19
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Kaiser Permanente launches first coronavirus vaccine trial
Corona Fear’s Cure: Chanting from the Bible and the Quran
Can You Chant from the Bible or the Quran to Bliss and Happiness?
Japanese flu drug ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, says China
Synthetic antibodies might offer a quick coronavirus treatment
The Four Possible Timelines for Life Returning to Normal
The Muslim Times Recommending Universal BCG Vaccination to Fight the Pandemic
Coronavirus: TB Vaccination Trial Started in Melbourne, Australia
The Muslim Times has the best collections in the war against Covid 19 as we are collecting from all the established sources
All of humanity are intimate neighbors: Coronavirus proves it once again
Praise be to God for the Miracle of Our Immune System
USA: 15-minute coronavirus test is here
Does the Ordinary Soap Kill Coronavirus?
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Yes, may be this coronavirus will be with us for another 3 years and by then some other virus may have appeared. Therefore we need to concentrate ‘how to live with it’ without destroying the world’s economies and without increasing poverty and unemployment.