- December 27, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care CEO Ray Hanley continues to plug vaccinations as the best solution to containing COVID-19, but as new variants mutate, he expects strains of the coronavirus to remaining with us indefinitely.
“It’s never going to go away, I think. It’s going to become a part of the environment just as the flu does, and I fully anticipate that at least annual vaccinations for COVID, and hopefully a combination flu and COVID vaccine is going to be in the future,” Hanley said.
Arkansas currently has a vaccination rate slightly above 50%, but Hanley predicts that number will go down dramatically once the definition of “fully vaccinated” changes to include booster shots. Only 14% of Arkansans have had boosters to their original shots, according to state government officials.
“What’s going to happen shortly though, I think, is the definition of fully vaccinated is going to change to include only those that have had the…
