Because the United States authorizes Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use, the task at hand is to encourage people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 “is something you want to do for yourself, for your family and for the future of our nation, ”said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said Thursday.
There has been so much misinformation about vaccines that even health care workers are hesitant to get vaccinated, Collins told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“I am a doctor. I am a scientist. I run the NIH. I have had the opportunity to be closely involved in every step of the development of these vaccines, “Collins said.” No shortcuts have been taken. There is no hidden information. There are no Bill Gates records there. get into the syringes – all the craziness you read on social media, but people have been wrapped up in all sorts of crazy information. “
Collins warned that if the United States does not get 70 to 80 percent vaccination, “we could lose even more lives and that would be the worst kind of tragedy possible.”
He urged Americans to take the rapid coronavirus pandemic seriously.
“Let me defend the Americans,” Collins said, as the death toll from Covid-19 exceeded 4,000 on Wednesday and hospitalizations and the number of cases continued to break records.
“Do whatever you’ve come to, in terms of the conclusion about your own ability to turn it around, put it aside,” he urged, “and let me talk to you for a minute here.”
“We know that these masks we are asked to wear are not political statements, they are life-saving medical devices,” Collins said.
“If we were okay today we decided to put aside all those arguments about politics and invasions of freedom and everything else and just say I’ll put this on when I’m out of my house, I’d avoid meeting inside with other people , especially if they don’t have masks, I will be part of the solution to protect myself, but also to protect my neighbors, my grandparents, all those people who are still there and who could still be the next victims, we could have the opportunity of dragging it out over the next few months while we’re waiting for the vaccine, ”he said.
“We have a couple of dark months ahead of us,” Collins said. “If we don’t do something right now to try to stop this terrible upward curve of hospitalizations, cases and deaths.”
More than 310,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 and more than 17.1 million have been infected, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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