Month: December 2020
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The big one南昌桑拿网WHO warns future pandemics could be worse than coronavirus
南昌桑拿网from this pandemic, is that “we need to get ready for something which may be more severe in the future.”
“This pandemic has been very severe, it has spread around the world extremely quickly and has affected every corner of this planet,” Ryan said. “But this is not necessarily the big one. This virus is very transmissible and kills people, it has deprived so many people of loved ones. But its current case fatality is reasonably low in comparison to other emerging diseases. This is a wake-up call.”
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He added that the threats will continue, and because our planet is so “fragile,” we must learn from the coronavirus pandemic and “get out act together.”
Ryan also said that there is a possibility of never eradicating COVID-19 — despite the recent rollout of safe vaccines.
南昌桑拿论坛“The likely scenario is the virus will become another endemic virus that will remain somewhat of a threat, but a very low-level threat in the context of an effective global vaccination program,” he said.
“It remains to be seen how well the vaccines are taken up, how close we get to a coverage level that might allow us the opportunity to go for elimination,” he said. “The existence of a vaccine, even at high efficacy, is no guarantee of eliminating or eradicating an infectious disease,” he said.
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Coronavirus: WHO official says next few months ‘are going to be tough’ despite vaccine approval – Dec 18, 2020
The warning comes more than two weeks after a highly-contagiousous coronavirus variant was announced by the British government.
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The strain, referred to by some experts as the B.1.1.7 lineage, is not the first new variant of COVID-19, but it has rapidly become the dominant strain in cases of COVID-19 in many parts of United Kingdom. To date, there is no evidence that it causes more severe illness.
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On Dec. 26, Canada reported the first two cases of the coronavirus variant that was found in the U.K. The variant has also and has spread to Australia, Japan and several European countries.
The WHO previously said that the newly authorized vaccines, such as Pfizer and Moderna, should still work against the new coronavirus variant.