A new poll found that 49% of Republican men said they would not be vaccinated against Covid-19 and Dr. Vin Gupta said that “will determine the trajectory of this pandemic” to the detriment of all Americans.
“All the predictions at this point say we will normally have passed the worst of this by the end of June, beginning of July. However, that depends on people actually getting the vaccine for 75% to 80% of eligible adults against that. period, ”said Gupta, who works in an intensive care unit. “If that’s not the case – if there’s such skepticism or hesitation – we’re not going to get there.”
Gupta, a pulmonologist and medical officer at NBC, pointed to models from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) suggesting that the US could still have 100,000 cases and at least 1,000 deaths per day if the number eligible adults vaccinated were among the projections.
Joe Biden promised a speedy return to norm on Thursday night during his first primetime speech as president.
“After this long, difficult year, it will make this Independence Day something very special, where we are not only marking our independence as a nation, but we are also starting to mark our independence from this virus,” he said.
Gupta, an associate assistant professor at the University of Washington’s IHME, told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that Covid will be something Americans are living with, turning into a more endemic virus, meaning it will will become regular. can be found among the population.
“The virus will still be transmitted, but people will not get sick and end up in the hospital,” Gupta said. “That’s the hope, that only a small part of society will remain vulnerable, and we can save that. This is what normality will look like: management, not complete eradication.”