But experts are asking what next for the country’s strategy, now that it’s clear the virus is not going away any time soon. Last week, the Chinese virologist Zhang Wenhong – widely known as “China’s Dr Fauci” – wrote in an essay about the need for the “wisdom” of long-term coexistence with the virus.
Zhang said the recent outbreak in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing should serve as “food for thought for the future of our pandemic response”. “The data tell us that even if each of us were to be vaccinated in the future, Covid-19 would still be endemic, but at a lower level with a lower fatality rate. After the liberalisation of vaccines, there will still be infections in the future,” he wrote.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/04/with-the-delta-variant-spreading-is-chinas-zero-tolerance-covid-approach-over
I came to this conclusion recently too in a slightly different way.
I realized that even if EVERYONE in Europe and the U.S. was vaccinated that variants would still be created in other continents on earth and countries on earth.
So, even if we succeeded in vaccinating everyone in the U.S. and Europe we would still be hit by newer variants everywhere on earth eventually still coming from people who were unvaccinated because their countries were too poor to vaccinate them.
Because of this, "What is the Solution?"
We have to find ways to live with this dynamic and with the new variants as Zhang Wenhong Says and others like Dr. Fauci Say worldwide.
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