If the UK’s recent experience is any guide, we should expect to see an increase in cases, with much lower rates of hospitalization than with the previous strains.
My prediction: through a combination of natural and vaccine-induced immunity, and the increasing awareness of effective and readily available therapeutics for early treatment, this pandemic is over for the US as a public health threat.
Corollary prediction: the WHO’s insistence on vaccines, and only vaccines rather than chemoprophylaxis means that this virus will not be eradicated in the world population, and we will be dealing with this as an endemic disease for the rest of our lives.
the WHO’s insistence on vaccines, and only vaccines rather than chemoprophylaxis means that this virus will not be eradicated in the world population, and we will be dealing with this as an endemic disease for the rest of our lives.
I think it’s too contagious to be endemic. Enough people will acquire antibodies so it can’t spread anymore.
People with diabetes and hypertension are the most at risk. In a sense, we will be dealing with the same problems of the wuhan coronavirus even when it disappears.
I agree with you except that I do t think chemo prophylaxis would do much to prevent this from becoming endemic. i think we will be living with it a king time but it won’t be the epidemic it has been over the last18 mos