If COVID-19 becomes endemic, we will live with a stressed, often overwhelmed healthcare system, with schools subject to unpredictable closures, with unsafe workplaces, with a disrupted economy, with our children under threat, with death and disability at a persistently higher level than we have known — probably for decades.
Britain's Covid-19 surge sparks call for probe into Delta Plus mutation
Former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Scott Gottlieb called for "urgent research" into a mutation of the Delta variant - known as Delta Plus - following a surge in Covid-19 cases in Britain.
"We need urgent research to figure out if this Delta Plus is more transmissible, has partial immune evasion," Dr Gottlieb said in a tweet on Sunday (Oct 17). "There's no clear indication that it's considerably more transmissible, but we should work to more quickly characterise these and other new variants. We have the tools."
His comments come as Britain reported 45,140 new cases on Sunday, the highest daily jump since mid-July - around when Prime Minister Boris Johnson authorised the removal of most Covid-19-related restrictions in what was dubbed "Freedom Day".
we have yet to see whether malaysian high vaxxing rate can deliver a sustainable low daily infection rate or otherwise, what with the rapid opening up & loosening up of everything
daily infection rate is the outcome part that we should be focusing on
vaxxing rate is merely the input part
UK, US, israel, singapore all already achieved high vaxxing rate 7 months or more earlier than malaysia
but look what happened up to them all after they opened up & loosened up everything so fast, even with 85% vaxxing rate
endemic at low to middle 2 digit daily infection rates like have been achieved by the arab gulf states could be tolerable even acceptable
but endemic at 4 digit daily infection rate is definitely still unaccceptable
Posted by Maridien2 > Oct 18, 2021 3:14 PM | Report Abuse
Some seem to expect that COVID-19 will learn to behave and become endemic. Some even seem to welcome this, claiming a “disease becomes endemic when it is manageable”.
Being manageable is not part of the definition of endemic disease. A disease becomes endemic when it is more or less always present in a population. It does not care whether it is manageable.
That's right. Not exactly a very bright & happy scenario, nor an indicator of fantastic covid management at all
Posted by Maridien2 > Oct 18, 2021 3:15 PM | Report Abuse
Even if we managed to get COVID-19 down to the severity of influenza (for an individual), endemic Delta – with an R0 about five times that of flu and the fully vaccinated still able to become infected and spread – would still mean thousands of hospitalisations and deaths each year.
so called 'living with covid' strategy does not mean simply forgetting that covid still exists & still raging & rampaging
OTOH living with covid means living & working as normal BUT keeping all safety health precautionary preventive measures, stringent restrictions, using appropriate preventive ppe, tight sop etc. to keep covid daily cases at as low level as achievable
high vaxxing rate alone not gonna bring covid under control, vaxxing needs to be combined & integrated with restrictions, good healthcare preventive measures & precautions, use of ppe, tight sop etc.
even highly vaxxed singapore struggling hard to manage covid now
shorting gang spend every hour of their life awake dissing gloves, badmouthing gloves, attacking gloves, talking gloves down, in order to drag glove stock price down further
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we have yet to see whether malaysian high vaxxing rate can deliver a sustainable low daily infection rate or otherwise, what with the rapid opening up & loosening up of everything
daily infection rate is the outcome part that we sould be focusing on, vaxxing rate is merely the input part
UK, US, israel, singapore all already achieved high vaxxing rate 7 months or more earlier than malaysia
but look what happened up to them all after they opened up & loosened up everything so fast
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Posted by MoneyMakers > 2021-10-18 15:18 | Report Abuse
Mercator open str8 drop 15% @ break new low..IntCo drop 9% @ break new low..everywhere gloves going down