People keep throwing their hands up and say ‘this is going to continue forever!!
Why do I say things will very likely be significantly different / better after this spring? Several key things:
Why do I say things will very likely be significantly different / better after this spring? Several key things:
1. Children will have the opportunity to be vaccinated, taking away a large group of immunologically naive people that cohort together socially.
2. We will have been through a fairly fulsome period of population exposure that will add dimension to population immunity
More of the world (I hope!) will have access to and administration of vaccines
So the net sum of population immunity will be good and it is likely peaks severe illness will be manageable….depending on shift and drift of this virus
So no, I don’t think we will be having the same conversations in a year. And there are reasons why (not). Could this be wrong? I could always be wrong about an RNA virus, but I think we will be close to a virus to monitor and respect, but not change humanity.
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