Quote of the Day

We are no longer in the acute fulminant accelerated phase of the outbreak. We’re in somewhat of a transitional phase where the cases’ numbers have decelerated – and hopefully we’re getting to a phase of somewhat better control, where we can begin to start to resuming more easily normal activities. The United States and the entire world is still experiencing a pandemic, but there are different phases of the pandemic. And what we are in right now is somewhat of a transitional phase, out of the accelerated component into hopefully a more controlled component.

– Dr. Anthony Fauci,
Chief Medical Adviser to President Biden
Quoted in Bill Chappell’s article “Here’s Why Dr. Fauci Says
the U.S. Is ‘Out of the Pandemic Phase’”
NPR News
April 28, 2022

Related Off-site Links:
Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams Talks Fauci’s Pandemic Comments, COVID Vaccines for Kids, and Mask Mandates – Yahoo! Finance (April 27, 2022).
WHO Warns Poor Nations Could Be Pushed to “End of the Queue” for Pfizer Covid Pill – Kenny Stancil (Common Dreams, April 22, 2022).
Analysis Shows That Vaccination Could Have Prevented 3 in 5 U.S. COVID Deaths Since June 2021 – Kenny Stancil (Common Dreams, April 22, 2022).
An Equitable Roadmap for Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic – Mitsuru Mukaigawara, Ines Hassan, Genevie Fernandes, Lois King, Jay Patel and Devi Sridhar (Nature, April 5, 2022).
COVID-19 Will Continue But the End of the Pandemic Is Near – Christopher J L Murray (The Lancet, January 19, 2022).

UPDATES: Dominant Coronavirus Mutant Contains Ghost of Pandemic Past – Laura Ungar (AP News, May 26, 2022).
COVID-19 Vaccines Saved an Estimated 20 Million Lives in One Year – Jim Wappes (CIDRAP News, June 24, 2022).
For Now, Wary U.S. Treads Water With Transformed COVID-19 – Carla J. Johnson (AP News, July 3, 2022).
“Reinfection Wave”: Ed Yong on BA.5 Omicron Variant Spread Amid Mask Mandate Rollbacks and Funding Cuts – Democracy Now (July 14, 2022).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• On the Second Anniversary of the Coronavirus Pandemic, Words of Gratitude and Hope
• Difficult Choices
• A COVID Start to 2022
• Out and About – Autumn 2021
• Renae Gage: Quote of the Day – November 28, 2021
• COVID Observations From a General Surgeon
• Richard LaFortune: Quote of the Day – August 20, 2021
• Something to Lament
• A Pandemic Year
• Out and About – Spring 2020
• Memes of the Times
• The Lancet Weighs-in on the Trump Administration’s “Incoherent” Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Examining the Link Between Destruction of Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Sonya Renee Taylor: Quote of the Day – April 18, 2020
• Marianne Williamson: In the Midst of This “Heartbreaking” Pandemic, It’s Okay to Be Heartbroken
• Hope and Beauty in the Midst of the Global Coronavirus Pandemic
• The Calm Before the Storm
• A Prayer in Times of a Pandemic

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