'It’s not gone. It’s changing. It’s killing': The COVID variants the WHO is watching closely.
#COVIDisNotOver @WHO @mvankerkhove @auscovid19
Full article here: https://euronews.com/next/2023/11/24/its-not-gone-its-changing-its-killing-the-covid-variants-who-is-watching-closely
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Yea its not gone, and never will be. We have to accept its here to stay and just put it in the same category as the flu at the point, just one of those diseases among many we might get. Doesnt mean you take it any less seriously, but we need to accept that diseases dont usually go away and this is in no way unusual in the sense that this too is here to stay and that could have never changed.
@freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
I disagree that it's here to stay. These things often burn themselves out after a few years. They don't always - Aids for example - but they can - Black Death for example.
@britishtechguru @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy So far there’s nothing to indicate that SARSCOV2 is going to go away. Unfortunately. Its propensity to mutate to avoid immunity suggests the opposite.
Yersinia Pestis never went away. It was the conditions that helped it propagate that improved. Even then the multiple waves of the plague went well beyond a few years.
@auscandoc @britishtechguru @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy in the Uk we remain at 500-600 covid deaths/ month, long covid though less frequent per infection rate/million has gone up due to increased infectivity. We are at the start when this is admitted we might start doing some rational things
COVID has too many features of something you cant get rid of:
1) fast immunity attenuation, people can get reinfected within months of exposure
2) Large number of asymptomatic patiens, so easy avoids detection.
3) It is airborne, as in, can transmit on droplets.
4) It is fairly contagious
You cant have those features and expect to eliminate it.
@freemo @britishtechguru @auscandoc @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy sure you can. Air filtration in places where people congregate plus masks. Air filtration in primate schools without masks reduces transmission to zero. It is simply a question of reducing concentrations below a threshold. Outdoors = dilution
@DaveFernig @freemo @britishtechguru @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy I’ve seen data that filtration in primary schools without masks reduces transmission but not seen “to zero”. Do you have the data for that?
Nope, while those measures can reduce the spread and are fine measures to take. They would not, unfortunately eliminate it.
@DaveFernig @auscandoc @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy
People just behave like idiots aorund Covid. I have no idea why. My workmate is down with RSV right now. I'm OK because I always wear a mask. She never wears one.