Not much news out there, but then I didn't look for too long given working voting this afternoon and needing to do a few things beforehand. Yet another new variant that might be of concern at some point, BA.2.3 has been detected in the Philippines and Australia. 2022 may be the year with just one named variant--Omicron--but like the spider in Charlotte's Web, it will leave behind many offspring.
A panel of experts from over 100 countries has developed 41 consensus statements and 57 recommendations for dealing with and ending the pandemic. The statements fall into six categories: communication, health systems, vaccination, prevention, treatment and care, and pandemic inequities. A large factor in developing these was that public health efforts vary greatly from country to country. One of the panel's leaders summarized the panel's efforts, "... a whole-of-society and a whole-of-government approach, along with a vaccines-plus approach, which means prevention measures that include and go beyond vaccination. We can do this. We should, and we must."
I am still puzzling over "whole-of-society" and "whole-of-government" wondering if there wasn't a better way to say what I think they mean. I also fear that "prevention measures that include and go beyond vaccination" will not fare well in the US, especially if the non-vaccination measures include things such as mask mandates and restricting crowd size. Are we our own worst enemies? Could be.
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