The coronavirus is “nowhere near” endemic, the World Health Organisation has said, and will not reach this point until it is “stable” and stops triggering unpredictable waves of infection that don’t “rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability”. The Telegraph has the story.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday Dr. Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer at WHO Europe, said it’s still too soon to suggest the world is moving into an endemic phase of COVID-19 – in spite of assertions from politicians in countries including the U.K. and Spain. …
“In terms of endemicity, we’re still a way off,” Dr. Smallwood told journalists. “Endemicity assumes that there’s stable circulation of the virus, at predictable levels with predictable waves of transmission… that doesn’t rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability. But what we’re seeing at the moment, coming into 2022, is nowhere near that… we can’t just sit back and see a stable rate of transmission,” she said.
“We still have a huge amount of uncertainty, we still have a virus that’s evolving quite quickly and posing quite new challenges. So we’re certainly not at the point of being able to call it endemic. It may become endemic in due course, but pinning that down to 2022 is a little bit difficult at this stage.”
At the weekend the Cabinet Minister Nadhim Zahawi said he believes the country is “witnessing the transition of the virus from pandemic to endemic”, while Spain’s Prime Minister this week urged Europe to consider the possibility of treating COVID-19 as an endemic illness, such as flu.
But Dr. Smallwood warned governments “to hold back on behaving as if it’s endemic before the virus is actually behaving as if it’s endemic”. She added that widespread vaccination uptake on an equitable basis will be “very very key in moving toward this scenario”.
Worth reading in full.
Note the multiple fantasies in this alarmist statement. “Widespread vaccination uptake on an equitable basis will be ‘very very key in moving toward this scenario'” – even though we already have very widespread vaccine take-up and infection rates are as high as ever.
Endemicity requires stability that “doesn’t rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability” – even though there is no evidence “external forces” (i.e., interventions) have done anything to limit the spread of the virus.
Endemicity “assumes that there’s stable circulation of the virus, at predictable levels with predictable waves of transmission” – even though there’s nothing predictable about existing endemic viruses like those which cause colds and flu.
So what’s the idea now? Vaccines don’t stop the spread, restrictions don’t stop the spread, hardly anyone is getting very sick and health services can cope, but for some reason we still have to stay on an emergency footing and not move on from the pandemic?
Meanwhile, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has said that a vaccine for Omicron will be ready in March and the company has begun manufacturing the doses. He also admitted that two doses are no longer any good against severe disease – though he may have had other motives for implying more doses of his product are necessary for protection. The Independent has the story.
Dr. Bourla told CNBC that the company is “already starting manufacturing some of these quantities at risk”.
He added that the vaccine will also be aimed at battling other variants of the virus but also acknowledged that it remains unclear if a variant-specific vaccine is needed.
The company began to create the vaccine because of high demand from some governments.
“The hope is that we will achieve something that will have way, way better protection particularly against infections, because the protection against the hospitalisations and the severe disease – it is reasonable right now, with the current vaccines as long as you are having let’s say the third dose,” Dr. Bourla said.
Worth reading in full.
Do you get the feeling some people don’t want this ever to end?
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Of course some people don’t want this to end. Marxist despots like Sturgeon and Drakeford. Self important so called e parts like Vallance, Whitty and Ferguson who delight in oppressing the proles. Idiot sheep who seem to get off on telling the intelligent that unless we mask up, stay indoors and isolate WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE. Personally, it should ever have started
Lets NOT forget, March 19th 2020 , UK GOV: The UK government no longer considers Covid-19 to be a “high consequence infectious disease”. & days later, we had three weeks to flatten the curve !!
So the WHO would seem to want the entire planet triple jabbed ( at least for now!). Might money , power and influence have a part to play, rather than a true concern for peoples’ health?
So Smallwood says Covid is unpredictable. Does that mean that Flu, that we treat as endemic, is predictable?! What an uninformed manipulator.
Should we be really cautious and wait until Flu is predictable? I’d rather wait for the day that pigs can fly!
Of course she’d be out of the limelight or out of a job so of course she wants to keep the “emergency” going.
All viruses wax and wane, think the flu for example which kills multiple thousands when there’s a bad year. Around 40 thousand in 2017/2018.
Anybody heard about that, no because we don’t panic about this stuff do we. Even the MSM.
WHO’s afraid of the big, bad, TRUTH.
Hah! I see what you did there!
And up pops the WHO to contradict itself again and put another spanner in the works. Not fit for purpose.
I would not take my advice from the WHO, ever.
🎶 You say pandemic. I say endemic. Pandemic. Endemic. Pandemic. Endemic. ….let’s call the whole thing off 🎶
Nice.
Ah, the Independent which used to report on “Big Pharma” attempts to influence NHS policy.
I wonder if they still do…
”A vaccine for omicron….” Why, for crying out loud? Oh! ”Pfizer says…” That explains it then.
Dr Geert Vanden Bossche tells us that to ‘vaccinate’ against omicron will cause an enormous catastrophe and has written to the WHO more than once to say so – he had no reply.
Like an ex that won’t take ‘No’ for an answer ….
‘it’s over…move on, please, move on..’
’but…no I can’t…what will I do..no..I’ll have no purpose…’
’just get a grip…go away’
’ok…but….I’ll be back’
’ffs’
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I love the smell of backpedaling in the morning.
At the weekend the Cabinet Minister Nadhim Zahawi said he believes the country… should pay for the heating of his horses’ stables.
What a fucking surprise. WHO don’t want to stop the panic because idiots like Dr Smallwood will have to find something else to do. The health professionals have been shown up by omicron and the WHO is no exception so they’re desperately trying to keep us all scared, now blaming politicians for having the temerity to have an opinion and ignore their bullshit advice. I’m just praying that England holds it nerve.
Anything could happen this winter, WHO Europe senior emergency officer Dr Catherine Smallwood told the Sunday Independent
What wise words. She’s absolutely right. Anything can happen at any time – though I would put a Martian invasion quite low on the infinite list of what ifs.
” #COVID19 #vaccination is out. Vaccines saved at least 470,000 lives among over-60s in EUR in less than 1 year.”
“In Denmark, where 78.4% of the total population has received primary course of #COVID19 vaccination, COVID hospitalization rates in wk51/2021 were 6 times higher for those who were unvaccinated”
Catherine Smallwood
https://twitter.com/_katusche
She looks quite Mad: a definition :
madness – the quality of being rash and foolish; “adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness”
and where are her teeth…
The WHO has given very bad advice right from the start of this pandemic.
If they’re saying it isn’t endemic then there’s probably a good argument to say that it is endemic.
Anyone have any idea what Bourla did his veterinarian research in to be awarded a Ph.D.?
This women looks rather like my niece who pleaded with me to get jabbed.
How did the system produce so many snowflakes
I know. So many people who should have never become “leaders” do somehow become leaders.
Unlike your niece this woman gets paid for her paranoia.
Rewards just beget more of the behaviour.
The science students at university who liked spending time in their rooms and never going out.Unhealthy grubby looking bastards that one hoped would stay confined forever. This is their assertion. We see its limits and its imbecility. We need to reject them with vehemence.
I know it doesn’t make sense but I always study these people’s faces and expressions in case I can learn to recognise evil.
This one looks like a prototype A1/humanoid blend.
I was thinking something similar – how odd it is that so many of these people have a vaguely reptilian look.
I have a little pet theory that I believe in. Look only at their left eye (your right) to literally see into their true character. The right eye shows the public, sociable eye.
Try it on known scoundrels and decent “sorts”.
All of these symptoms have been with us since 1998. Exerting themselves every now and then, testing the water. You are swimming in a sea of toxicity various in form but all essentially emanating from the same source. Did you see it ten years ago or twenty years ago. Not everyone did. This event is shaking this up a little.
I suppose the Government will use this as an excuse to extend the coronavirus act in March for another 6 months.
Of course then when we get to September, they will extend it for another 6 months because winter is coming.
A suggestion Dr Smallwood…Stop stabbing millions with an untested leeky cytotoxin in the guise of a vaccine that facilitates multiple mutations of your GOF bio-weapon ya gloabalist Totalitarian whore?
They don’t want it to end. I knew people in early 2020 who were happy to be off work and enjoying the good weather at home. I can understand that if you have a boring job and you hate everyone and travelling to work is awful. But you can’t have it both ways. You want the big house and lots of goods and regular travel and yet you think you can disengage from it at the same time. This is an astonishingly entitled attitude. They will come down with a bang.
She’s trying to grab onto the fact places like London bought in the military at particular points to support Drs, but that was only because of the government’s testing and isolation policies!
if we do just sit back and do nothing- we will very quickly see a stable rate of transmission and low background level of infection.