Dr Peter Hotez says Joe Biden was wrong to say pandemic is over and warns US risks another deadly coronavirus wave soon
in September, that “the pandemic is over”, was mistaken and a poor message to send to the American public.
“The next big coronavirus pandemic is coming – the fourth one. I can’t tell you if it’s going to be next year or five years or 10 years, but it’s coming,” he warned. China in particular has taken a drastic approach to its pandemic response by implementing a zero-Covid policy that saw extreme lockdowns. A surge in infections led to President Xi Jinping’s strict policy. A harrowing result of that policy was theof 10 people from the far western region of Xinjiang, who perished in a fire that engulfed a high-rise residential building they were unable to escape in time due to the lockdowns last month.
He added: “[China] kept it down to very crude and primitive means. They didn’t take advantage of the technology that was available.” “We have seen these bumps in Europe and my prediction is we’ll see one in the US this winter. And maybe we’re seeing the beginning of it right now. How bad it’s going to be is hard to know. We still are seeing 200-300 deaths a day, which is a pretty serious, deadly disease. It’s still something far worse than the flu. Maybe not as bad as it has been. But the key is to get Americans to take two or three appropriate protective measures.
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