Posted on 04/15/2020 6:30:14 AM PDT by John W
This may be the new normal for quite a while.
The US may have to endure social distancing measures -- such as stay-at-home orders and school closures -- until 2022, researchers projected on Tuesday. That is, unless, a vaccine becomes quickly available.
That's according to researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who published their findings in the journal Science on Tuesday. Those findings directly contradict research being touted by the White House that suggests the pandemic may stop this summer.
The team at the Harvard School of Public Health used what's known about Covid-19 and other coronaviruses to create possible scenarios of the current pandemic.
"Intermittent distancing may be required into 2022 unless critical care capacity is increased substantially or a treatment or vaccine becomes available," they wrote in their report. "Even in the event of apparent elimination, SARS-CoV-2 surveillance should be maintained since a resurgence in contagion could be possible as late as 2024."
The Harvard team's projections also indicate that the virus would come roaring back fairly quickly once restrictions were lifted.
"If intermittent distancing is the approach that's chosen, it may be necessary to do it for several years, which is obviously a very long time," Dr. Marc Lipsitch, an author on the study and an epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, told reporters.
Another important factor: Whether people become immune to the new coronavirus after they have been infected. That's not yet known.
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What is the point of a vaccine for something that mutates?
This is all getting so ridiculous.
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Uh, no. Aint gonna happen
Because this virus is going to behave in a way that is COMPLETELY different from any other virus that has previously landed on our shores.
Because, Trump.
Scientists predict.
Oh ok ..
God saves. Not science. And it’s only by His Grace we have medical knowledge in the first place. He’ll rid and mitigate the world of the virus as He sees fit, in His timing.
Agreed. As far as I am concerned, it ends May 1st.
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Aren’t these the same guys who predicted that the ice cap at the North Pole would be entirely gone by 1988?
If State Governors are beginning to lose their grip on enforcing social distancing I’d like to see this pocket-protector crowd try to do it.
“What is the point of a vaccine for something that mutates?”
Do you even remotely know how that term is applied to things like this, or do you go by the “mutation” in terms of turtles turning into Ninja warriors?
Also “may have to”...IOW we think, it could, uneducated guess.
It makes perfect sense to me. It is a political virus. That is why it must continue on and on.
In your face types in New York City hardest hit
Film at 11
LOL! No.
Or we just have too damned many scientists who are
suffering from Jor-El Syndrome.
Maybe I don’t. In other words, is the vaccine still effective when it comes back around in its mutated form, or do you then have to develop a new vaccine?
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