Now that the WHO has now declared that COVID is no longer a public health emergency how will authorities/Governments handle the next pandemic.
I doubt that you can go again for the blunt instruments of lockdowns, especially if you have another pandemic within 10 or 15 years - What we have seen is a steady trickle of deaths which will probably happen for the next two years after world-wide COVID restrictions were removed, despite the overall success of the vaccination program - It seems that unfortunately a small cohort of the population that will always be susceptible to COVID whether vaccinated or not.
I suspect next time there is a pandemic ( especially in the short-term ) then authorities may introduce a Swedish style of management, which I think in the wash-up worked well.
“COVID-19 vaccination has substantially altered the course of the pandemic, saving tens of millions of lives globally. However, inadequate access to vaccines in low-income countries has limited the impact in these settings, reinforcing the need for global vaccine equity and coverage.”
China is likely to see its Covid-19 wave peaking at about 65 million infections a week toward the end of June, according to a senior health adviser.
XBB has been fueling a resurgence in cases across China since late April and is expected to result in 40 million infections a week by the end of May, before peaking at 65 million a month later, local media outlet the Paper reported Monday, citing a presentation by respiratory disease specialist Zhong Nanshan at a biotech conference in the southern city of Guangzhou.
The 65-million-case estimate from disease modeling indicates the resurgence is likely to be more muted compared with the previous wave unleashed late last year and into January.
Going by the reports on the French media, that Marseilles Doctor who promoted hydroxychloroquine is getting a lot of academic attacks on his latest research paper.
Son was out with a bad cold last week, seems like half his class were down with it and absent.
Two covid tests, both negative, so it seems like just a cold. He’s pretty much over it today and went back to school.
