Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States is still breaking records in hospital overcrowding and new cases. Will we ever be free of it? Experts weigh in:
The group of experts from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Minnesota, and New York University write that"many of the measures to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 will also reduce transmission of other respiratory viruses. Thus, policy makers should retire previous public health categorizations, including deaths from pneumonia and influenza or, influenza, and COVID-19, and focus on a new category: the aggregate risk of all respiratory virus infections.
One sign of progress, Adalja says, will be the widespread decoupling of cases from hospitalizations, something that has already happened in countries such as the United Kingdom. Over time, when the body sees foreign antigens repeatedly, the quantity and quality of the antibodies theSo"a large amount of the population will have recovered and have a degree ofHis optimism is tempered by his belief that"it's going to get worse before it gets better."
As for the threat of new variants, Badley says,"It's not predictable whether they will be stronger or weaker."Many experts predict that masks will continue to be part of the national wardrobe for the foreseeable future. Landon says she is frustrated when she leaves that overburdened world inside the hospital for the outside world, where people wear no masks or ineffective face coverings and gather unsafely. Although some of that behavior reflects an intention to flout the advice of medical experts, some is due in part, she says, to the lack of a clear national health strategy and garbled communication from those in charge of public safety.
Health care providers who responded to the WebMD poll lost trust as well. About half of the doctors and nurses who responded said they disagreed with the FDA's decision-making during the pandemic. Nearly 60% of doctors and 65% of nurses said they disagreed with the CDC's overall pandemic guidance.
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