Reports from the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-20, suggest that strains of the HINI virus morphed into less virulent forms that circulate today as seasonal flu. Coming up to two years since its first detection in November 2019, COVID-19 mutations are, so far, intensifying, not weakening.
Today comes news that China has locked down a city of 4.5 million people in the southeastern province of Fujian in an attempt to once again halt a delta outbreak and maintain its strict zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19.
With 58% of the world population, and 98% of people in low-income countries still lacking a first vaccine shot, this plague is not nearly done with the world’s inhabitants or economy.
What will the #Covid19 pandemic look like in the next 6 months? “It’s not going to leave much left unburned,” says epidemiologist Michael Osterholm @CIDRAP who compares it to a #coronavirus forest fire. Here is a direct video link.
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