Ex-CDC Chief Frieden: COVID vaccines won’t drive cases down for months, but may decrease death rates - News Summed Up

Ex-CDC Chief Frieden: COVID vaccines won’t drive cases down for months, but may decrease death rates


The CDC has updated their guidance Thursday on the coronavirus vaccine administration stating that the first and second approved doses can be given up to six weeks apart. Frieden provided insight into the updated coronavirus guidelines and warned Americans may be "over the danger level" if not careful. …The bottom line here Neil is that we need to get vaccines out of freezers and into arms, but vaccination is not going to drive case rates down for many months. It may drive death rates down, especially if we can vaccinate more people in nursing homes and people over the age of 65. Those are the individuals who account for, in the case of nursing homes, about 40% of deaths over 65, 80% of deaths…so if we can get that group vaccinated sooner, death rates should start coming down before the case rates start coming down.


Source: Fox News January 23, 2021 19:41 UTC



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