In welcome news a long time coming, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that the Covid-19 pandemic may essentially be under control by mid-summer.
That announcement comes as coronavirus infections have hit a new low, with a majority of Americans now vaccinated.
The latest projection models released by the CDC provide “a road map out of the pandemic,” said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
“We have a path out of this, and models, once projecting really grim news, now offer reasons to be quite hopeful for what the summer may bring,” Walensky added in a press conference.
In one of four models looking at the pandemic’s rate of growth, the CDC is showing a plummet in new cases as of late spring, with what the Washington Post describes as a “dramatically improved viral landscape this summer.”
The most optimistic model also suggests that the average current rate of upwards of 4,000 people a week dying from the pandemic could drop to well less than 100 a week by September.
Despite the hopeful projections, infectious disease experts have warned that variants of the virus could still appear that may include new mutations immune to the covid vaccine.
“Variants are a wild card,” Walensky remarked, noting that their presence “could reverse this progress we have made.”
To that end, Walensky emphasized the importance of vaccinations, noting: “The sooner we get more and more people vaccinated, the sooner we will all get back to normal.”
By Garry Boulard