{"id":1577,"date":"2021-08-09T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T13:01:08","slug":"the-world-is-nowhere-near-the-end-of-the-pandemic-says-famed-epidemiologist-larry-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"The world is nowhere near the end of the pandemic, says famed epidemiologist Larry Brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>KEY POINTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><li>The pandemic is not coming to an end soon \u2014 given that only a small proportion of the world\u2019s population has been vaccinated, said Larry Brilliant, a well-known epidemiologist.<\/li><li>Brilliant, who was part of the WHO team that helped eradicate smallpox, said the delta variant is \u201cmaybe the most contagious virus\u201d ever.<\/li><li>The doctor said vaccinated people aged 65 and have a weakened immune system should get a booster shot \u201cright away.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">The pandemic is not coming to an end soon \u2014 given that only a small proportion of the world population has been vaccinated against Covid-19, a well-known epidemiologist told CNBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">Dr. Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist who was part of the World Health Organization\u2019s team that helped eradicate smallpox, said the delta variant is \u201cmaybe the most contagious virus\u201d ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\">In recent months, the U.S., India and China, as well as other countries in Europe, Africa and Asia have been grappling with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/06\/covid-charts-show-how-far-delta-variant-has-spread-around-the-world.html\">highly transmissible delta variant<\/a>\u00a0of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/09\/covid-epidemiologist-larry-brilliant-on-delta-variant-vaccinations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/09\/covid-epidemiologist-larry-brilliant-on-delta-variant-vaccinations.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEY POINTS The pandemic is not coming to an end soon \u2014 given that only a small proportion of the world\u2019s population has been vaccinated, said Larry Brilliant, a well-known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-news-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}