Zakaria: Travel Bans Are Band Aid Solutions, What We Need Is to Ramp up Vaccinations

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ZAKARIA: "We'll to have to learn to live with some level of virus and some mutations in our societies moving from a pandemic to an endemic stage. What that means, it seems to me, is these travel bans are Band-Aids, they don't really help very much. What you really have to do is ramp up vaccination, figure out what kind of boosters you need for new variants. mRNA technology is a miracle technology because probably, we can very quickly adjust the formula, this is essentially a computer code, and come up with a new booster. It still appears to be the case that the vaccines offer enormous amount of protection. We need to figure out how to get this mRNA technology to the world faster. The single biggest gap here has remained the global response, so we have 80% of many European countries vaccinated and only 10%, 15%, 20% of countries in Africa, if that. That is the gap that is causing this virus to replicate, you know, to move around, and then the more it replicates, the more it mutates, which is change forms.”