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Pelosi Test Positive for Covid.
During an event about the Affordable Care Act, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, April 5, 2022. Also seen are Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. Pelosi has tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic, her spokesman Drew Hammill said in a tweet Thursday, April 7.
Dr. Fauci Warns This Plan for Ending COVID Is Now “Unattainable”
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a primary topic of conversation for over 2 years now. The entire world has faced the repercussions of the virus, but with the introduction of vaccines and booster shots, we’ve made significant progress toward finally returning to normal. At the same time, some of our hopes for what the world could one day look like have become more and more unlikely. Now, one plan for ending the pandemic is being called “unattainable.” Read on to learn what virus experts say will now never happen.
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Dr. Fauci said herd immunity is no longer a solution for COVID.
Throughout the pandemic, the concept of “herd immunity” was discussed as
a possible way to protect the population by lowering community circulation levels.
Herd immunity is achieved when a certain percentage of the population becomes immune following vaccination or natural infection—leaving the virus with nowhere to go. The term was a source of controversy at the height of the pandemic, with some health officials and experts encouraging the idea of herd immunity as a way to return to normal,
MarketWatch reported.
Anthony Fauci, MD, chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden and director of
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has penned an article alongside two other NIAID officials, which states that “classical” herd immunity for COVID “almost certainly is an unattainable goal.” In the article, published March 31 in the Oxford Academic Journal of Infectious Diseases, Fauci and his coauthors suggest rather than reaching this threshold, we will adjust to living with the presence of COVID. This will involve “optimizing population protection without prohibitive restrictions on our daily lives,” the article states.
New COVID variants and their ability to “escape immunity” make achieving herd immunity very difficult. The threshold for herd immunity has been met for both polio
and measles in the U.S., but these viruses have phenotypic stability, meaning they stay
the same, as opposed to COVID.
Herd immunity for the new virus could be “elusive,” the virus experts write, as COVID continually mutates into new variants. These variants are then able to evade immunity that people have otherwise developed thanks to previous infection or vaccination.
If strains continue to mutate and immunity from prior infections and vaccines is only temporary, the viral transmission of COVID could continue indefinitely. According to
the NIAID article, this may be on a “low endemic level,” much like we see with seasonal
flu outbreaks—which actually began with the 1918 pandemic influenza virus.
Like the flu virus, immunity to COVID and other respiratory viruses “is a fluid concept,” these experts say. People can either have durable immunity that fully protects them or immunity that prevents serious disease, but not prevention or transmission to others.
The FDA is also considering updating existing vaccines.
Fauci and his coauthors note the potential of new vaccines to provide immunity against multiple variants. This coincides with a meeting scheduled for April 6, where the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) will evaluate the effectiveness of existing COVID vaccines.
According to a briefing from the FDA, they may need to
be updated to protect against new and emerging strains.
“Although a complete understanding of how emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants impact
the effectiveness of current COVID-19 vaccines is lacking, the accumulating data suggest that the composition of vaccines may need to be updated at some point to ensure the high level of efficacy demonstrated in the early vaccine clinical trials,” the briefing reads.
In addition to this, the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will discuss how frequently vaccines need to be evaluated, how to implement a formal process for vaccine strain selection, and the ideal timing for booster doses.
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WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and President Joe Biden’s sister became the latest Washington figures to test positive for COVID-19, announcements that came Thursday after two cabinet officials and others tested positive the day before.
Pelosi, who is asymptomatic, tested positive on Thursday. She will quarantine, her spokesman announced. “The speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted and is thankful
for the robust protection the vaccine has provided,” said spokesman Drew Hammill.
Pelosi attended crowded events at the White House Tuesday and Wednesday at which Biden spoke. The White House said Biden’s interactions with Pelosi do not meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s definition of being in close contact.
Collins tests positive after Supreme Court vote
Collins, one of three Republicans who broke from her party to vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, tested positive late Thursday afternoon.
Her office said the senator is experiencing mild symptoms and will isolate and work remotely following the diagnosis.
Collins’ positive test came just hours after she voted for Jackson’s historic nomination. Last week, Senate Judiciary Chair Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., warned reporters that the confirmation wasn’t a done deal until after the vote, because something like a senator testing positive for COVID and being unable to vote could disrupt the process.
The senator attended the annual Gridiron Dinner on Saturday, as did two cabinet members who have since tested positive.
Biden tests negative.
Biden was last tested Wednesday, as part of his regular testing regime of a couple times a week, and tested negative, according to the White House. His doctor does not believe it’s necessary for Biden to test daily, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday. “COVID will continue to be with us,” she said.
“We will see cases rise and fall.” Pelosi is the eighth member of Congress to test positive this week. All of the members were fully vaccinated and boosted. Following Pelosi’s diagnosis, a planned trip by lawmakers to Asia that the speaker was to lead has been postponed.
Biden’s sister also tests COVID positive.
Valerie Biden Owens tested positive on Wednesday after experiencing mild symptoms,
her publisher said in a statement. Owens had not been in close contact with the president
or first lady, the publisher said. Owens’ memoir, “Growing up Biden,” comes out Tuesday.
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On Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said they had tested positive, as did Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director Jamal Simmons.
All three had attended the annual Gridiron Dinner Saturday night, which attracts a wide swath of government officials and journalists. Some lawmakers and reporters who were at the dinner have also tested positive.
Pelosi was not at the dinner but her spokesman, Hammill, was.
Biden did not attend the dinner but spoke Wednesday at an event in a hotel ballroom packed with more than 2,000 union leaders and members,
most of whom were not wearing masks.
He also held a crowded health care event at the White House on Tuesday and hosted lawmakers and others for a bill signing Wednesday. Biden, 79, has been vaccinated,
and he received his first booster shot in September and a second at the end of March.
In addition, the White House had gone beyond CDC’s recommended protocols to protect Biden from the virus. Anyone who meets with the president or is traveling with him is tested first. When possible, Biden is also kept socially distanced from others, according
to Psaki. “We are living with COVID-19,” Psaki said. “We are continuing to fight it.”
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