Dr. Deborah Birx says US must prepare for summer COVID surge as immunity wanes

Birx says US must prepare for summer COVID surge as immunity wanes Deborah Birx, a leading member of the Trump administration’s White House coronavirus task force, said on Sunday the U.S. should be prepared for another potential COVID-19 surge after a recent uptic… mbeals The Hill

Deborah Birx, a leading member of the Trump administration’s White House coronavirus task force, said on Sunday the U.S. should be prepared for another potential COVID-19 surge after a recent uptick in infections in South Africa.

“They’re on an upslope again,” Birx said of South Africa’s infections on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“Each of these surges are about four to six months apart. That tells me that natural immunity wanes enough in the general population after four to six months that a significant surge is going to occur again. And this is what we have to be prepared for in this country,” she added. 

Birx specifically warned Americans should be “preparing right now for a potential surge in this summer across the southern United States.”  ...