US President Joe Biden this week outlined a series of goals and measures that reflect a strategic shift in the way he wants Americans to view Covid-19.
, he outlined a series of points that coalesce into a new strategy for America's fight against Covid-19 — learning to live with the coronavirus.mitigating the spread of the virusOn Tuesday, he took a multi-pronged approach: pushing to keeping schools open, shoring up medical infrastructure to reduce deaths, resupplying the public with self-test kits, using Pfizer's coronavirus pill to alleviate serious illness, and chiefly, getting Americans vaccinated.
"You can still get Covid, but it's highly unlikely — very unlikely that you become seriously ill," he said."But if you're unvaccinated, you have some reason to be alarmed," the president continued."Many of you will — you know, you'll experience severe illness, in many cases, if you get Covid-19 if you're not vaccinated. Some will die, needlessly die."
"The goal for the 'new normal' with Covid-19 does not include eradication or elimination," they wrote inInstead, that goal is"recognising that SARS-CoV-2 is but one of several circulating respiratory viruses that include influenza, respiratory syncytial virus , and more." People have lived normally with these viruses, the experts wrote, though they noted that Covid-19 has resulted in significantly more deaths and hospitalisations.
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