![]() Restaurants and other establishments checking vaccine status often have to trust the vaccine paper cards in front of them. Easily forged paper cards are “unacceptable” in the 21st century, he says. Still, in order to get the virus to a manageable level and build “a wall of immunity,” he says vaccine mandates need to be considered at the employer and national level.īright writes about his disappointment with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s paper vaccine cards. “Even those who refuse to get vaccinated, I think we need to look more deeply into why or how we can reach those people,” he says. For that reason, unvaccinated people can’t be grouped altogether. There’s another complication with utilizing that tactic too, Bright says: Many people can’t be vaccinated because they're too young or have specific conditions. The coronavirus expert group writes how bullying and berating unvaccinated people don’t work to encourage them to get the shot. A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on a counter at a pharmacy in Portland, Ore., on Dec. But for God's sake, we need to make sure that we do not get fooled the third time,” he says. But little has happened federally to stay one or two steps ahead of the virus, he says. He says he warned the incoming Biden-Harris transition team one year ago this month that the virus would evolve and produce variants. ![]() “We need to be able to get out of this pandemic panic cycle - this whiplash if you will, a back and forth of variant, panic, variant, panic - and learn to use these tools that we have in a combined way and line them up against this virus so when the next variant does emerge, we are armed,” he says.īright has been dismayed by the Biden administration being caught off guard by delta and omicron. ![]() But we need to focus on preparedness, Bright argues, since the virus has shown again and again its expeditious ability to mutate. Instead, it’s about protection, preparedness and using the tools at our disposal, he says.įor protective measures, we have high-quality N95 masks, diagnostic tests, vaccines, treatments and therapeutics to control the pandemic. Living under a new normal doesn’t mean forgoing all precautions or subscribing to the notion that getting sick with COVID-19 is inevitable. After watching the virus “slip out of control in many ways” over the past year with delta and omicron, he says the group wanted to present their plan to make the pandemic manageable and create a new normal. A National Strategy for COVID-19: Testing, Surveillance, and Mitigation StrategiesĪmong them is Rick Bright, an immunologist, vaccine researcher and now chief executive of the Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention institute.A National Strategy for COVID-19 Medical Countermeasures: Vaccines and Therapeutics.A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID.The group has written three articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, outlining their vision of how to create a life where we're no longer scrambling to react to the pandemic but instead puts us out in front of it, taking measures to control its worst outcomes: That's the message from six prominent coronavirus experts - all of them former health advisors to President Biden who met with his COVID-19 advisory board - who say they're frustrated with his administration's response. (Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images) This article is more than 1 year old.Īs the pandemic goes into its third year, it's time to work toward a new normal.
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