Guilford County Health Director Dr. Iulia Vann says that Guilford County and its residents are now entering a new phase in the war against COVID-19.
Vann told the Board of Commissioners recently that, even though COVID-19 remains a threat, the county is moving on to a new mindset for assessing and battling the virus that has caused authorities to shut down much of the world for the past two years.
“We are moving into COVID-19 2.0,” Vann said at the Thursday, Feb. 17 meeting of the commissioners.
Version 2.0 of the county’s COVID-19 response still doesn’t resemble a return to “normalcy.” However, it does involve a more nimble and targeted approach to addressing COVID-19 outbreaks compared to what people have seen in the past – such as widespread mask mandates, wholesale lockdowns and the cancelation of large events.
Vann said that, while the virus remains prevalent, the population of Guilford County has obtained higher immunity due to vaccinations and past infections, and she added that local medical providers have new treatments that work.
“We have more tools and we also have learned a lot,” Vann said.
She cautioned that people can’t completely let their guard down.
“The virus is not disappearing,” Vann said.
At the same Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting last week when Vann spoke, the commissioners voted unanimously to immediately remove Guilford County’s mask mandate – and that was, in part, due to Vann’s assessment that progress was being made in the county’s battle against COVID-19.
In the new COVID-19 2.0 stage, people have many more tools and resources at their disposal than before – home tests kits, for instance, are a big one.
Vann told the Board of Commissioners at the Thursday, Feb. 17 meeting that the 14-day average test positivity rate in the county– one of the key stats county health officials watch – was at 12.5 percent, a decrease from 18.5 percent two weeks earlier.
Since that Feb.17 meeting, those positivity rates have fallen even more.
Vann said other evidence is also confirming the downtrend in infections. For instance, state health officials have found a way to detect the extent of coronavirus in a community by testing wastewater and Vann said that indicator is showing a downward trend in the presence of the virus in Guilford County.
And they left out one, elections. Stop everything now and maybe the people will forget how they were treated by the elected. NO , we wont forget…. better dust off those resumes.
Wouldn’t have nothing to do with the mid-terms and losing elections, now, would it? Funny how there is nothing new in the “so-called science” to make this group of corrupt politician thugs do an abrupt change of attitude, so they are exposed for who they are.
King Skippy always wants that control, and he will figure out a way to get it back, I’m sure.
You and Mac hit the nail right on the head – midterm elections!
Of course, to aid in forgetting all about the covid tyranny, now they have their manufactured war crisis for everyone to get upset about, with just as much propaganda and fear mongering. It will be interesting to see how they can spin this to feed their need to cheat on elections.
Those who want to usher in the NWO are learning that as long as we are a 2nd amendment country, we will resist all attempts to be lorded over by foreign powers. Go ahead and call me a conspiracy theorist – the conspiracy theorists have been right over the past 2 years, more than the “experts”.
So, Vann, what’s the plan?
Perhaps they should use my method of covid control. No mask, no shutting down. I say out loud: “I have not had covid yet”. Knock on wood 3 times and go out and attend business like it is 2019.
What are these “new treatments that work” ?
The vaccine of course and the new drugs if you are diagnosed soon enough. I forgot the name…but it shortens the illness and lessons the symptoms.
IVERMECTIN
I stopped reading at “Covid.”
Tired of this spit.