Virus Expert: We’re At War With ‘Dangerous’ Covid Variants | The 11th Hour | MSNBC

MSNBC Public Health Analyst Dr. Irwin Redlener reacts to the growing concern over three Covid-19 variants now detected in the United States. Aired on 2/4/2021.
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32 comments

  1. Brits do dates: day/month/year – shortest to longest – US dates: month/day/year.

    Guardian/BBC do colour key in shades: least = lightest, most = darkest – MSNBC does colour key in shades least=lightest, most=a shade lighter than the level below… Fundamental difference in mindset?

  2. Every time we have a war on drugs,poverty,no child left behind,homelessness we lose…There are no winners in war

    1. @RiteMo LawBks the government of the United states has paid 4 billion dlls for injuries or death caused by vaccines

    2. @RiteMo LawBks taxpayers have covered the 4 billion in claims to the vaccine injury court who has awarded less than 5 % of cases brought against it

  3. Well masks are officially coming off as of today in Sydney Australia. Last outbreak is now eliminated, so mandate’s been removed for all locations except public transport. That’s what happens if you take it seriously & do what’s required for containment. Come on America!

    1. until someone from the US comes over and infects you guys again. As long as covid exists anywhere in the world, and people can travel from there and back, how is any country safe from the virus? Do you have people have a negative covid test to travel? they could still catch it on the plane.

    2. ​@Determined Pirate yeh, the reason we had the masks was cause we had 2 separate escapes of 2 different US variants into our community right before Christmas, but both are eliminated again now πŸ™‚
      Also currently a lockdown in Perth WA cause of a UK variant escaping quarantine there
      & Melbourne’s also managing a quarantine escape from the Australian Open tennis competition quarantine hotel
      Quite frankly we’re all getting pretty sick of this, it’s getting ridiculous! We put EVERYONE who enters the country into 14 days quarantine in a government run hotel, but clearly they’re not up to the task & we need a PROPER, purpose built quarantine centre OUTSIDE the major cities!

      Normally flight numbers are limited enough to prevent spread on the flight, but the charter flights for the Australian Open were apparently higher numbers, so we’ve had infections from there, especially from the infected flight attendant flight. We’re getting a LOT of flight crews testing positive! Few passenger flights (only around 500 people a day total allowed into the country) but still lots of freight flights & lots of infections in those crews.

      People are required to be tested within 72 hours of boarding the flight here, then they are tested again on day 1-2 of quarantine, then again on day 11-12 of quarantine before release & if they get symptoms later (which has happened) they’re expected to immediately get tested again & isolate at home until they get the result & isolate at home (or hotel if they’d prefer & obviously hospital if sick) for 14 days if they test positive.

      & anyone with symptoms at any time is expected to get tested & isolate until cleared & if a test is positive, it’s fully contact traced & genome sequenced & 3 generations of contacts are expected to isolate for 14 days & get tested before leaving isolation. We give people good support to do that isolation though πŸ™‚

      We also do regular sewerage testing to test the entire population for undetected covid. We certainly never assume it won’t get back into the country once eliminated!

    3. ​@RiteMo LawBks agreed, but they shouldn’t have! Australia should be being seen as one of the worst performers with the number of serious mistakes made! It’s pretty scary they can be near the best!
      2 quarantine breaches releasing covid again into a country that’s eliminated it in just the last week! All due to a substandard hotel quarantine system that experts have been saying for months is not fit for purpose.
      At this rate the current federal government looks set to be ejected at the election later this year for it’s covid failures.
      NZ’s running the same system too, it’s been luckier than Australia, but in reality that’s all it’s been.
      Australia in particular really shows how easy covid is to control with an even semi-competent government, cause in reality it hasn’t been much more than that, at least not at a federal level, it’s mostly state governments that have stepped up to take control of the federal government’s failures (although there has been some good back & forward, Victoria/Melbourne screwed up badly & the federal government got involved there to get them back on track too, so it’s not all one way saving).

      In reality, any country that follows one of Australia’s many available models (each state has a different one) will likely find covid fairly easy to control with even a semi-competent government applying it

  4. Hey, remember that speech Bush sr. talked about an invisible enemy to ring in the new world order. Looks like we’ve arrived, having fun yet ?

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