COVID-19 experts and former presidential health advisors have outlined their vision of how to create a life where we're no longer scrambling to react to the pandemic but instead puts us out in front of it:
, an immunologist, vaccine researcher and now chief executive of the Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention institute. After watching the virus “slip out of control in many ways” over the past year with delta and omicron, he says the group wanted to present their plan to make the pandemic manageable and create a new normal.
“We need to be able to get out of this pandemic panic cycle — this whiplash if you will, a back and forth of variant, panic, variant, panic — and learn to use these tools that we have in a combined way and line them up against this virus so when the next variant does emerge, we are armed,” he says. A vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is displayed on a counter at a pharmacy in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 27, 2021.
Still, in order to get the virus to a manageable level and build “a wall of immunity,” he says vaccine mandates need to be considered at the employer and national level. “It would give us an upper hand to be able to tailor our tools so we can be in position to catch that virus and stop it as it emerges and spreads,” Bright says.Public health infrastructure — down to the supply chains making crucial materials for health care workers — also needs to be evaluated, he says. Staffing in hospitals is slim because many health care workers are out sick with the virus themselves. That puts hospitals in crisis care mode with no backup plan, he explains.
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