the variants are here, they’re just not evenly distributed yet
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dorian Retweeted Venkatesh Rao (田 )
i keep thinking about
@vgr's covid z scenariohttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1353582663769055237 …dorian added,
Venkatesh Rao (田 ) @vgrScenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too costly to chase with vaccines. Joins the top-3 ranks of steady modern killers alongside heart disease and cancer.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @doriantaylor @vgr
this was my baseline expectation from January to ~November of last year, but the fact is that it changed for me when I saw how powerful and adaptable the vaccine platforms were. Even in the event of a continuous barrage of variants from places where the virus has become endemic…
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…where it has deeply penetrated into populations vaccines can’t reach, for whatever reason, or crosses over into animal populations, we do possess the technology, should we choose to accept it, to rapidly respond to and defang this and many other viruses, into the future.
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it could still suck! but we won’t be in hell
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Replying to @DanielleFong @vgr
the irony is that while we have the mrna platform which is ridiculously powerful, the political opposition to it is baffling. reminds me ofpic.twitter.com/pWF2R8KAxC
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