Must-read... Everything in this article is solid up until the assertion that a vaccine alone will be the answer. There is simply no way a vaccine strategy alone will ever get ahead of this virus; logistics surrounding production, distribution, and administration mean certain populations will always remain unprotected, and act as a reservoir, allowing for variants to arise that will render the immunized susceptible to reinfection.

Closed borders (for personal travel), mask mandates have to be implemented, at minimum and deliberate avoidance of public spaces, unnecessary real world interactions, etc to have a hope at containment. And only after containment can localized vaccination strategies have a hope of working.

The Manaus Variant is in the northern hemisphere now, and unfortunately any thought of Big Pharma or regulators keeping real therapies or solutions down just went out the window.. reinfections will begin to occur, vaccinations and spike targeting MABs will lose strength. Leronlimab, as it stands, is the best and possibly only hope.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/20...euLRZyR4Jc