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The COVID-19 pandemic will not come to an end until younger children can be vaccinated, The New York Times on Monday quoted epidemiologists as saying in a new survey.
They said that the true end of the pandemic when it becomes safer to return to most activities without precautions will arrive once at least 70 percent of Americans of all ages are vaccinated.
Adolescents in the United States just began receiving vaccines this week, and those for children younger than 12 are not yet approved, according to the newspaper. Children are key to ending the pandemic, said David Celentano, chair of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University and one of the 723 epidemiologists who participated in the survey this month.
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For the past 14 months, we have been ruled, not by elected officials, but by an obscure medical profession thrust to the forefront of public life thanks to a pandemic the media falsely portrayed to the world as something akin to the next coming of the bubonic plague.
In far too many places, white-coated epidemiologists have circumvented democracy, pulling the strings behind the scenes as governments imposed countless destructive non-
pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like lockdowns, business closures, and the forced masking of healthy individuals.
Do a dive into the field, and it makes sense. As I explained in this April column, epidemiology is becoming increasingly associated with the molding of public behavior, and individuals who go into it often have undergraduate degrees in public health, which focuses on the social and behavioral sciences, instead of hard-core sciences like biochemistry or biology.