Experts reached a consensus that there’s a roughly 20 percent chance during the next two years of an outbreak rivaling the onslaught of illness from omicron.
Source: Disease experts warn White House of potential for omicron-like wave of illness
I wrote this ⬇️ while reading ⬆️:
1 in 5. roll the dice, comes up 1 and we’re back to omicron-level infections; hopefully less deadly, but that’s not a garuntee. (link???)
“with experts reaching a consensus that there’s a roughly 20 percent chance during the next two years of an outbreak rivaling the onslaught of illness inflicted by the omicron variant.”
Again with the waste water testing!:
“We have continued detection of ‘cryptic lineages’ in wastewater surveillance, suggesting that it’s not uncommon to have run-away evolution of a persistent infection within a single individual,” Bedford wrote, cautioning that much is unknown about these variants, including the identities of the individuals harboring the viruses, their symptoms and whether the variants are transmissible.”
So could those funds, 50B$US, be used to have 2 things: 1) wastewater testing everywhere, reporting to public deashboards?, and 2) robust reporting systmes for pandemic-like sympotms; this likely already exists for other things, just need to make the corrections we discrovered necesary during the covid-19 pandemic.
“House Democrats counter that the remaining coronavirus funds are necessary to prepare for future pandemics and to fortify the nation’s public health system.”
