Europe's surge in Covid-19 cases is prompting urgent conversations among top Biden health aides about the possibility of another wave in the U.S. this spring.
“People who do get sick, to lose monoclonal antibodies, that testing plan .... there’s a long list of stuff that would really help to combat this imminent BA.2 -related wave and then the next one,” said Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research. “Nobody wants these waves. But we have to face the music and the music isn’t pretty.”
The White House did not comment for this story, and referred reporters to comments made by spokesperson Jen Psaki earlier this week about the prospect that BA.2 could continue to spread in the country, causing an increase in cases. “All of this is happening also while there is waning immunity. … Also the communities and populations [in Europe] have opened up. They relaxed many of their mitigation strategies — as have we,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Thursday during a panel discussion with the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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