"They're going to be chasing variants around the globe for the foreseeable future, and have made a death pact for endemic spread—it's never going to go away." says @gregggonsalves, in a great podcast with @jameshamblin and @maevehiggins. (1/x) podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…
"We're now in a path where we're going to have these cycles of coronavirus outbreaks as there are gaps in vaccination across the U.S. and across the world, and as new variants emerge that might be less susceptible to vaccines that we put out into the field."
"We could be lucky. Maybe these variants don't emerge that escape the ability to be neutralized by the antibodies raised by these vaccines, but, you know, we have hundreds of millions of people infected, and while this virus isn't as great a mutation generator as HIV, but..."
"...the sheer number of infections that are occurring are a recipe for viral variation emerging over the course of the next few months are years..."
"...and as we put things in its way that are not good enough to stop it in its track, it starts to push it down an evolutionary pathway to resist these half-measures." (x/x)
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