We should think about the Delta variant as the 2020 version of Covid-19 on steroids, it's twice as infectious. Fortunately, unlike 2020, we actually have a tool that stops the Delta variant in its tracks : It's called vaccine.

Andy Slavitt

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I would caution you not to be overly swayed by any one or a handful of companies and whether they are making money or not.

It's complete bulls ** t and a scare tactic.

I think [the CDC] is pretty good in peace time.

If everybody is boosted, that's your best shot at having everyone back.

Omicron has turned this undoubtedly into a three-dose vaccine, if it wasn't heading that way already, two doses just aren't going to be sufficient any longer. If everybody is boosted, that's your best shot at having everyone back [ in the office ].

We're going to be living in most communities with Delta plus Omicron, instead of one superseding the other, in parts of the country that are unvaccinated, I am very worried.

The problem with Omicron is hotspots will be easier to generate, the things that might have been two or three people getting Covid in the office will be 15 or 30 people getting Covid.

I think it will be manageable, many of us mentally live in a 2020 mindset. But now we have seven or eight interventions : rapid tests we can give people, boosters, ventilation, therapies.

There is a bit of a split personality in how people react, ron DeSantis will probably go running mask-less into ICU wards without fear. But people in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, California and Pacific Northwest are going to display more caution.

They're not right. Could 2022 be the year where the state of emergency ends ? Perhaps, but it's not the year when SARS-CoV-2 stop circulating or hundreds of thousands of people in this country stop dying.

The beginning of 2022 will be rough.

Boost everybody. If everybody is boosted, that's your best shot at having everyone back.

Israel began their vaccination process a little bit ahead of us, so I think in many respects, we've been looking to them -- and to a certain extent, the UK -- for what we can expect, as well as the people who participated in the original clinical trials of the vaccines in 2020, those three things together, generally speaking, give us a sense of what to predict for the future.

The questions that people have now about society will be cleared out, new York City will be the first city in the country that takes those questions off the table completely as this gets implemented.

I think every government agency ought to rethink what’s appropriate, there are a number of people in surveys, by the way, who say precisely these words, ‘I’m not going to take it, unless it’s required.’.

It's going to take more than him to make the case. It's going to take getting very aggressive.

That will be a telltale sign for them to say' Why am I on the fence any longer ? This has now been fully approved by the FDA,' and even though it's got a great record already, that will I think be another stamp of approval.

It's one more reason for people to take this seriously and say,' Wow, we've got great vaccines, we're so lucky to have them, maybe I should take one or two,'.

In those communities, a Covid that spreads twice as fast is not a good thing.