That includes the latest headline that says the virus is becoming easier to get and harder to avoid.
The report says at least 10-million people in California have now gotten the virus, with about half of them happening just since December when the more contagious Omicron variant emerged.
And that number is believed to be much higher because many cases are never reported. The CDC now estimates that in California, at least 55-percent of people have been infected at one point or another.
So does that mean there’s no sense doing anything about and that it’s inevitable that everyone will get it? The chair of UC San Francisco’s Department of Medicine, who hasn’t had the virus, doesn’t think so.
He told the L-A Times, “The fact that I and a fair number of people who continue to be careful and are fully vaccinated and boosted remain COVID-free tells me that it’s possible we will continue to be that way, so I don’t buy the inevitability argument.”
But he and other medical experts agree that because some people who are fully protected can and are still getting it, and because the virus can become serious in some more vulnerable people, it is still wise to get vaccinated, get boosted and wear a mask when indoors and in close contact with others.
In remarks to the National Press Foundation, Dr. Anthony Fauci said. "We are still in the middle of a war against a formidable virus."
In other words, it looks like the coronavirus is still around.
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