'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.
Speaking as a COVID-19 research scientist I can tell you yes its here to stay.
AIDS is also here to stay and not eliminated. There are 1.3 million new HIV/AIDS cases world wide each year. In the USA there are fewer cases due to use of condoms but still new cases each year (something on the order of 50,000 new cases a year in the USA).
The black death (plague) also isnt eliminated, we have new cases of it in the USA each year. But since its carried on fleas our modern sanitation has reduced the number of cases significantly, so it is here to stay as well.
The important thing about AIDS and the plague, despite not being eliminated, is these are NOT air borne. They only transfer with close intimate contact of some kind. So while sanitary conditions can greatly reduce (not eliminate them) things like COVID-19 are not at all comparable.
Diseases dont go away usually, AIDS, H1N1, COVID-19 they are here to stay forever. You can wear masks and reduce it to some extent, but the second you stop it will just go right back to baseline (just as stopping wearing condoms would raise AIDS back to baseline).
These diseases are here to stay, forever.
@freemo @britishtechguru @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
2) to be our new normal. Not without assistance, at least.
@freemo @britishtechguru @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
1)Dubious. We already saw the Wuhan Lineage effectively die out. A massive propaganda campaign was launched with the onset of Omicron that made pre-cooked bogus claims of attenuation, cross-reactive antibodies, and T-cell immunity.
And sure, there's a trickle of the Wuhan lineage still floating about. MERS pops up and disappears just as fast every now and again, but these Pathogenic Coronaviruses just aren't evolutionarily stable enough