r. Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, says the United States is "certainly" past the pandemic stage of fighting the coronavirus, though he acknowledges it continues in other countries around the world.

"We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase," he told PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff on Tuesday. "We don't have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths. We are at a low level right now. So, if you're saying, are we out of the pandemic phase in this country, we are."

Fauci, also President Biden's chief medical adviser, also said the U.S. was "not going to eradicate this virus" entirely and that the government should continue a practice of "intermittently vaccinat(ing) people."

Many Americans, he said, may have to get vaccinated annually for an unclear period of time in an effort to reduce the number of infections.

"That might be every year, that might be longer, in order to keep that level low. But, right now, we are not in the pandemic phase in this country," he said.

Originally Posted By FlashMan-7k:
The head rat in the swamp says pandemic phase is over:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/fauci-says-us-certainly-out-pandemic-stage-covid-19

Originally Posted By JPN:


Wait.  Hold up.  Don't go misinterpreting that.

Fauci walks back claim that US is 'out of the pandemic phase'.

Originally Posted By RSG:
He has a lot more tweets but these are some highlights

Day 47 of our Shanghai Covid lockdown and we woke up, like we often do, to a man in a hazmat suit downstairs yelling through a bull horn for us to come down for our tests

While checking our phones for the new test QR code, we also saw this alarming new official notice sent to us pic.twitter.com/G7O4wlGFzx

Jared T Nelson  (@JaredTNelson) May 6, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSFZ6wgXIAEZToI?format=jpg&name=900x900

The result of the new announcement and the new street barricades is that we are locked down in Shanghai, not allowed to leave our apartment door (except for going downstairs to do Covid tests), and are also not allowed to get any deliveries of food, or drinking water, or anything

Jared T Nelson  (@JaredTNelson) May 6, 2022

They sent the announcement on Friday morning to go into effect at midnight, and from my understanding this applies not just to our apartments but to many in the area

Panic buying and hoarding started immediately, of course, and all same day deliveries were instantly fully booked

Jared T Nelson  (@JaredTNelson) May 6, 2022

The only hope for us here is that this is one last hard lockdown as a final measure to test and cut off the spread of the virus

We have some hope that this new hard lockdown is only for 2 days, but then again, that’s exactly what they told us for the general lockdown 47 days ago

Jared T Nelson  (@JaredTNelson) May 6, 2022

Originally Posted By JCoop:
Well, the rice rabies finally caught up to me. Probably picked it up grocery shopping. Chest is tight, dry cough, yesterday had a headache, and it felt like somebody beat my upper back with a stick. Feeling kind of drained. All in all, not so bad, so far. Blood-ox is holding upper 90s.

Started Ivermectin yesterday. Should I supplement with good Scotch?

Is it de rigueur to call the doc for advice or only if it get's worse?

Originally Posted By C-4:

Anyone remember the reputable online pharmacies in India?  I need some Cloxacillin but don't remember the names of the ones posted previously.

Defunding Wuhan: Congress quietly bans federal funds from (TO! - Flash) labs in China, Russia and Iran

Vote is latest action to acknowledge that theory that COVID-19 leaked from Wuhan research lab — once censored as preposterous and by news organizations, social media giants — is viable enough for government to vote with its pocketbook.
By John Solomon
Updated: July 2, 2022 - 4:26am

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While U.S. intelligence has been unable in two years to determine for sure if COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, Congress has decided it no longer wants to take the risk of funding medical research at labs controlled by Beijing or other American adversaries.

With little fanfare and in bipartisan fashion, House appropriators quietly amended the 2023 federal budget for health and science agencies on Thursday to ban any funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which U.S. intelligence fears may have been the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, and other labs like it.

"None of the funds made available by this Act may be made available to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any other laboratory located in a country determined by the Secretary of State to be a foreign adversary, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran," reads the amendment approved by the House Appropriations Committee.

You can read the amendment here:
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HoueAppropsAmendments6-30-22.pdf

The vote is the latest official government action to acknowledge that the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan research lab — once panned as preposterous and censored by news organizations and social media giants — is viable enough for the government to vote with its pocketbook.

After more than a year of ridicule, the lab leak theory was officially recognized by the Biden administration's intelligence apparatus as one of the two most viable explanations for the appearance of coronavirus, with the other being natural evolution.

The lab leak theory got even more credence last month when the World Health Organization, the United Nations body that first dismissed the lab leak theory, admitted there was "new evidence" supporting the theory that needed investigating.

WHO said on June 10 that  "key pieces of data" to explain how the pandemic began were still missing and that it must "remain open to any and all scientific evidence that becomes available in the future to allow for comprehensive testing of all reasonable hypotheses."

The announcement by WHO led House Republicans to cheer. "Americans were smeared as 'conspiracy theorists' for asking whether #COVID19 came from a lab leak," they tweeted. "Now, the WHO is asking the same questions."

The Appropriations Committee action on Thursday was praised by Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), a member of the House Education and Labor Committee who sponsored the amendment over national security concerns and the fact that many foreign labs conduct abusive experiments on animals.

"Our tax dollars should never go to countries that threaten our national security," she said. "We've seen how dangerous it is to fund research at the Wuhan Lab in China. I've been leading efforts to defund animal labs in China, Russia and other foreign adversaries and I'm proud that the House Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment supporting my efforts to prevent taxpayers' money from being sent to labs in these countries.”

Also applauding the action was the nonprofit group White Coat Waste Project, which earlier this year revealed that 32 animal labs in Russia and China were eligible to receive taxpayer dollars via the National Institutes of Health and that one in Russia was involved in a cruel experiment on cats.

"A majority of Americans agree that taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay white coats in foreign labs to torture animals in dangerous and wasteful experiments," said the group's Senior Vice President Justin Goodman. "Having first exposed NIH funding for animal labs in China and Russia — including the notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology — we applaud Republicans and Democrats on the Appropriations Committee for their historic move to defund wasteful spending in dozens of animal testing labs run by our enemies."

Originally Posted By HighDesert6920:
Looks like fauci's "gain of function" efforts are working...the latest BA.5 variant evading nearly all antibodies - even from recent prior infection...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01730-y

Maybe after the next couple elections - if they are not fraudulently modified - the evil fauci and his despicable associates will be punished for crimes against humanity...

Originally Posted By HighDesert6920:
Looks like fauci's "gain of function" efforts are working...the latest BA.5 variant evading nearly all antibodies - even from recent prior infection...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01730-y

Maybe after the next couple elections - if they are not fraudulently modified - the evil fauci and his despicable associates will be punished for crimes against humanity...

Originally Posted By FlashMan-7k:
@stampkolektor

Did you even begin to think we'd be here with this thread?

Originally Posted By macro:
I'll tell you...Either we are all living in a parallel universe, or we are going to see a lot of folks get blindsided. I'm sitting in a pizza place grabbing a quick lunch....they have CNN on the TV. Wall to wall coverage of the impeachment hearings. Political analysis and nothing else. Not one second or one word about this virus.

A world power is shutting down their cities amid a public health crisis...potentially resulting from a bio weapon gone astray....potentially threatening the world.  CNNS priority. ..Trump.

These people really are fucking crazy

Originally Posted By MarkNH:
This thread is still alive?

I remember posting when the first few cases were popping up in Wuhan then meticulously following every cruise ship around the world with infections to see where they had been and where they were going and spreading Covid.

Originally Posted By Lurk-king:
Bumping to see who was pushing the fear covid mongering

Originally Posted By Lurk-king:
Bumping to see who was pushing the fear covid mongering

Originally Posted By Lurk-king:
Bumping to see who was pushing the fear covid mongering

Originally Posted By S13:
Hi.

Originally Posted By ziegenbock:
The CDC needs to stay on top of this shit.  Fucking air travel is going to kill us all

Originally Posted By RSG:

For the second day in a row, China has recorded an explosive increase in coronavirus infections.

In the city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, which has the largest number of cases, the construction of a quarantine center for 80,000 people has begun. pic.twitter.com/LnOZdVdVjO

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) November 25, 2022

Originally Posted By darkd0r:
What's the difference between a "quarantine center" and a concentration camp?