Americans can achieve pandemic security through creative, pragmatic action that bridges political divides and provides community-focused options for public health protection. What’s needed is a concrete pathway for action that attracts support from Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and others.
“As awful as omicron was, it left in its wake a tremendous amount of immunity,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown's School of Public Health.
When it comes to deploying future vaccines, Jennifer Nuzzo, the founding director of the Pandemic Centre at Brown University, said "it's not the science that worries me as much: it's the production."
Jennifer Nuzzo — a professor of epidemiology and the director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health — told Truthout that, notwithstanding the risks inherent to congregate living settings, age has always been the biggest risk factor for severe illness and death from COVID.
"That's what's been most puzzling about China's approach to this virus," said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, "because it's basically leaving wide open its biggest vulnerabilities."
In reality, lockdowns are "pause buttons," Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, told Insider. "They're supposed to buy time to build up immunity in the population through vaccines," she said.