Light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel

[Axtremus]

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/28/1072591923/africa-may-have-reached-the-pandemics-holy-grail

" ... the finding suggests that it has now been months since Malawi entered [...] the endemic stage of the pandemic, in which the coronavirus becomes a more predictable seasonal bug like the flu or common cold."

[Doctor Phibes]

Not to be a pessimist, but it seems like we've had a few of these reports over the last two years, and then things don't play out as predicted

[xenon]

I dunno what'll happen - but the widening of hospitalization / dates rates from case rates is very encouraging.

It feels like that's the only thing that'll help us long term - this thing gets weaker.

[Doctor Phibes]

@xenon said in Light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel:

I dunno what'll happen - but the widening of hospitalization / dates rates from case rates is very encouraging.

It feels like that's the only thing that'll help us long term - this thing gets weaker.

I don't think there's a guarantee that the virus will get less deadly. If that happened, it seems like after millions of years there wouldn't be any dangerous viruses any more.

[Ivorythumper]

A commentary (not peer review) published in The Lancet.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00100-3/fulltext

[Jolly]

@doctor-phibes said in Light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel:

@xenon said in Light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel:

I dunno what'll happen - but the widening of hospitalization / dates rates from case rates is very encouraging.

It feels like that's the only thing that'll help us long term - this thing gets weaker.

I don't think there's a guarantee that the virus will get less deadly. If that happened, it seems like after millions of years there wouldn't be any dangerous viruses any more.

Oh, I think we'll still see a bad one every blue moon. Think flu. We may go many years with garden variety strains that the vast majority of people can shake off and then we'll get a bad one.

My two cents...

[Larry]

The Philippines will open its border to tourists again starting February 10th, visa on arrival, no quarantine, so for the first time in almost 3 years I can go check on my house there....