The Future Of The Pandemic In The U.S.: Experts Look Ahead
4 years ago

The Future Of The Pandemic In The U.S.: Experts Look Ahead

NPR  

The Future Of The Pandemic In The U.S.: Experts Look Ahead Enlarge this image toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Joe Raedle/Getty Images Updated March 26, 7:15 p.m. A year after the pandemic shut down the country, a growing number of infectious disease experts, epidemiologists, public health officials and others have started to entertain a notion that has long seemed out of reach: The worst of the pandemic may be over for the United States. Sponsor Message "The worst may in fact be behind us," says Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown School of Public Health, one of more than 20 people interviewed by NPR for this story. "Specific communities may see a resurgence because of the variants — there may be hot spots," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "If we don't get rid of this thing everywhere, it's going to just come back and get us again," says Robert Murphy, executive director of Northwestern University's Institute for Global Health.

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COVID-19 gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect our preparedness for the next pandemic
4 days, 3 hours ago

COVID-19 gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect our preparedness for the next pandemic

NPR  

COVID-19 gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect our preparedness for the next pandemic SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Americans have become more polarized about vaccines in the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. NPR's Jude Joffe-Block reports on the challenge this poses to combating public health threats. Motta traces a direct line from Trump's comments five years ago to …

The Take: Is the world ready for the next pandemic?
2 weeks, 2 days ago

The Take: Is the world ready for the next pandemic?

Al Jazeera  

Five years after COVID-19, how global inequity threatens our preparedness for the next pandemic. The clock is ticking down to the next pandemic, which could be deadlier than the last, as new zoonotic diseases emerge and global vaccine inequity persists. In this episode: Drew Ambrose – Al Jazeera journalist, Flatten the Curve Episode credits: This episode was produced by Chloe …

Is the world ready for the next pandemic?
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Is the world ready for the next pandemic?

The Hindu  

An awkward question remains five years after Covid-19 began its deadly rampage: is the world ready to handle the next pandemic? View from the WHO Asked whether the world was better prepared for the next pandemic, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said recently: "Yes and no". "If the next pandemic arrived today, the world would still face some of the …

The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025
2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025

Politico  

‘Secessionists Are on the March’ BY AMY ZALMAN Amy Zalman is a strategist and futurist. As Trump’s off-the-cuff comment makes its way from Greater Idaho leadership into the right-wing social media grapevine and, from there, the national news mainstream, it becomes a rallying cry for sympathetic national legislators, and a point of alarm for the many Americans who have never …

5 things we know and still don't know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
2 months, 3 weeks ago

5 things we know and still don't know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

Hindustan Times  

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The World Health Organization has said member countries reported more than 7 million deaths from COVID-19 but the true death toll is estimated to be at least three times higher. Scientists and vaccine-makers broke speed records developing COVID-19 vaccines …

5 things we know and still don't know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
2 months, 3 weeks ago

5 things we know and still don't know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The World Health Organization has said member countries reported …

There’s Still Time to Get Ahead of the Next Global Pandemic
2 months, 3 weeks ago

There’s Still Time to Get Ahead of the Next Global Pandemic

Wired  

Public health is under pressure. Across health care systems around the world, funding is declining, exhausted professionals are leaving the field, and in the US state legislatures are pulling back needed legal authorities. The Covid-19 pandemic was extraordinarily challenging for the public health workforce, which mounted a historic pandemic response. Public health, specifically epidemiology, is beginning to reorient away from …

How America lost control of bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic
3 months ago

How America lost control of bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

Salon  

Keith Poulsen’s jaw dropped when farmers showed him images on their cellphones at the World Dairy Expo in Wisconsin in October. “I don’t know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.” To understand how the bird flu got out of hand, KFF Health News interviewed nearly 70 government officials, farmers and farmworkers, …

Health Experts Warn of Bird Flu's Pandemic Threat
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Health Experts Warn of Bird Flu's Pandemic Threat

Deccan Chronicle  

Paris: Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing signs of mutating as it spreads among cows and infects people in the United States. The deadly bird flu variant H5N1 first emerged in China in 1996, but over the last four years it has sp More than 300 …

Trump's failure and the next pandemic
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump's failure and the next pandemic

Raw Story  

“The political folks believed that because was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy.” —Vanity Fair’s Katherine Eban quoting Jared Kushner’s team in March, 2020. And it appears that the virus that has her at death’s door is a recent mutation: “But researchers have homed in …

"Bad news for public health": Jay Bhattacharaya, Trump's pick to lead NIH, got COVID-19 all wrong
3 months, 3 weeks ago

"Bad news for public health": Jay Bhattacharaya, Trump's pick to lead NIH, got COVID-19 all wrong

Salon  

By most accounts, President-elect Donald Trump bungled the federal response to COVID-19, publicly downplaying concern about a virus that he privately admitted was “deadly stuff.” “It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear,” Trump said in Feb. 2020, at the same time he was admitting to journalist Bob Woodward that the virus was …

‘Dire implications’: Experts warn Trump could spark global health crisis with latest idea
4 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Dire implications’: Experts warn Trump could spark global health crisis with latest idea

Raw Story  

Over the weekend Donald Trump said he is considering a ban on not just vaccine mandates, but vaccines themselves—an extension of his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is expected to put RFK Jr., a known AIDS denialist and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and purveyor of vaccine misinformation who has likened the use of vaccines to the "holocaust," in charge …

Global Pandemic Threat: 100 Days to Save Lives
5 months ago

Global Pandemic Threat: 100 Days to Save Lives

Hindustan Times  

A modelling study suggests that if a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 had been developed within 100 days, an estimated 8.3 million deaths could have been averted globally. The study also estimated that productivity losses due to illness amounting to almost $1.4 trillion and $63 billion of hospitalisation costs would have been averted globally.

Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial

Salon  

The 2024 Olympic Games are serving up some less-than-subtle metaphors for how poorly we handle public health. Just after winning a bronze medal in the much-anticipated men's 200-meter race, U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles collapsed on the track in exhaustion — not just because he’d completed a brutal run in just 19.7 seconds, finishing third, but also because he was sick …

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns
10 months, 2 weeks ago

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns

The Hindu  

There are things we know that we don’t know. This risk was identified and flagged back in 2021; packaging was modified to insert information associated with the side effects; even the WHO wrote about it first in May 2021 and then in 2023.Read Bindu Shajan Perapaddan’s report on the rare vaccine side-effect is “no secret” and they are “well aware …

World leaders to meet to discuss threat of hypothetical ‘Disease X’ in Davos
1 year, 2 months ago

World leaders to meet to discuss threat of hypothetical ‘Disease X’ in Davos

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s known by the placeholder name of Disease X, …

Mosquito-borne illnesses are picking up speed. Experts say Americans are unprepared
1 year, 5 months ago

Mosquito-borne illnesses are picking up speed. Experts say Americans are unprepared

Salon  

This summer, public health officials in Florida issued a warning to residents to avoid mosquitoes after five cases of dengue fever were reported. It’s a matter of when, not if, future outbreaks will spread in even bigger regions across the U.S. “The fact is, we’re not really ready,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine …

The next pandemic is already coming and it could kill millions more than Covid. We need to prepare for it now... writes experts KATE BINGHAM and TIM HAMES
1 year, 6 months ago

The next pandemic is already coming and it could kill millions more than Covid. We need to prepare for it now... writes experts KATE BINGHAM and TIM HAMES

Daily Mail  

The next major pandemic is coming. It’s already on the horizon, and could be far worse — killing millions more people — than the last one. To combat Disease X — as the World Health Organisation ominously calls it — we will once again need vaccines to be engineered and delivered in record time. It’s already on the horizon, and …

WHO, Believes Disease X Could Create A Pandemic Like Situation, All You Need To Know
1 year, 10 months ago

WHO, Believes Disease X Could Create A Pandemic Like Situation, All You Need To Know

News 18  

As the world gradually returns to a sense of normalcy following the unprecedented challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientific and public health communities remain steadfast in their preparations for future outbreaks and pandemics. As the global community reflects on the challenges and lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, the pursuit of knowledge and preventive measures against future outbreaks …

Scientists call on G7 to improve preparedness for next pandemic
1 year, 10 months ago

Scientists call on G7 to improve preparedness for next pandemic

Al Jazeera  

Hiroshima, Japan – Scientists have called on the Group of Seven to take urgent action to tackle the world’s lack of preparedness for the next pandemic, warning that developing countries continue to lack access to life-saving treatments and vaccines. In an open letter published to coincide with the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, the People’s Vaccine Alliance said scientific advances …

Will we ever reach a point where Covid is no longer a threat to our everyday lives?
1 year, 11 months ago

Will we ever reach a point where Covid is no longer a threat to our everyday lives?

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. There were many hard-learned lessons, but …

FDA’s advisors back plan to simplify COVID-19 vaccinations
2 years, 2 months ago

FDA’s advisors back plan to simplify COVID-19 vaccinations

LA Times  

Syringes with COVDI-19 vaccines are prepared at a free public clinic in Lynwood last year. “We’re still protected against severe disease, thank goodness,” even after the latest Omicron strains cropped up, said FDA advisor Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The first step: The FDA advisory panel voted unanimously that people should get the same …

Lessons From COVID: What The World Needs to Learn to Tackle Future Pandemics
2 years, 2 months ago

Lessons From COVID: What The World Needs to Learn to Tackle Future Pandemics

The Quint  

The costly lesson from COVID: why elimination should be the default global strategy for future pandemics Getty Images Imagine it is 2030. An upgraded pandemic response to eliminate at source The process by which the WHO currently decides whether to declare a public health emergency of international concern has drawn criticism for being too slow. Elimination makes sense for other …

COVID In 2023: Here's What Experts Expect
2 years, 2 months ago

COVID In 2023: Here's What Experts Expect

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING It’s been three years since the novel coronavirus first emerged, and while a sense of normalcy may have returned for many people, experts say the pandemic isn’t over yet. This would depend on a “dramatically different variant” not emerging and upending the current vaccines’ effectiveness, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s then-chief medical adviser. “Delivering vaccines …

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
2 years, 3 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The article suggests that these …

As COVID-19 becomes routine, Africa readies for next crisis
2 years, 3 months ago

As COVID-19 becomes routine, Africa readies for next crisis

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Building on the experience of …

As COVID-19 becomes routine, Africa readies for next crisis
2 years, 3 months ago

As COVID-19 becomes routine, Africa readies for next crisis

Associated Press  

ABUJA, Nigeria — Building on the experience of battling the COVID-19 pandemic, African countries are strengthening health systems to prepare for the next health crisis, the World Health Organization’s Africa director said Thursday. At the onset of the pandemic in early 2020, some of the 54 countries in the continent of 1.3 billion people lacked the facilities or trained health …

As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference
2 years, 3 months ago

As COVID-19 spikes in California, booster shots could make all the difference

LA Times  

With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations rising in Los Angeles County, officials are voicing new confidence in the effectiveness of the updated COVID-19 booster shot. New data has found that the updated COVID-19 vaccines offer “significant additional protection” against symptomatic infection in people who were previously vaccinated or boosted with the older formula. “We have seen very low uptake of the …

Vaccinated people now make majority of COVID deaths in US: Report
2 years, 4 months ago

Vaccinated people now make majority of COVID deaths in US: Report

India TV News  

In a startling revelation, a Washington Post analysis has found that more vaccinated people are now dying of the Covid disease and 58 per cent of coronavirus deaths in August in the US "were people who were vaccinated or boosted". The death among vaccinated people is increasing due to the waning efficacy of Covid vaccines and "increasingly contagious strains of …

Govt tells states to refocus on universal immunization as covid cases fall
2 years, 5 months ago

Govt tells states to refocus on universal immunization as covid cases fall

Live Mint  

The Union health ministry has directed states and union territories to focus on the universal immunization programme, which was severely affected during the worst years of the covid pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The universal immunization programme is one of the largest public health programmes targeting close of 26 million newborns and 29 million pregnant women annually. With more than …

A report highlights 11 ways to prepare for future pandemics
2 years, 5 months ago

A report highlights 11 ways to prepare for future pandemics

The Hindu  

A global report released today highlights massive global failures in the response to COVID-19. The report also highlights that the pandemic has reversed progress made towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in many countries further impacting on health and wellbeing. The World Health Assembly should also adopt new global regulations on biosafety to regulate international research programs dealing with …

Fight to end virus pandemic takes place on UN’s sidelines
2 years, 6 months ago

Fight to end virus pandemic takes place on UN’s sidelines

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — In four days of fiery speeches over war, climate change and the threat of nuclear weapons, one issue felt like an afterthought during this year’s U.N. General Assembly: the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gathered with World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and others to discuss equitable access …

Experts weigh in on whether the Covid pandemic is over
2 years, 6 months ago

Experts weigh in on whether the Covid pandemic is over

CNN  

Editor’s Note: The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writers. The problem is that what “back to normal” feels like may differ from person to person, depending on the individual’s circumstances and by what criteria they are judging the pandemic to be over. The Conversation asked three scholars of different parts of U.S. society affected by …

Biden told the nation that "the pandemic is over": Experts say it's not that simple
2 years, 6 months ago

Biden told the nation that "the pandemic is over": Experts say it's not that simple

Salon  

President Biden's declaration that "the pandemic is over" raised eyebrows and the hackles of some experts who think such messaging could be premature and counterproductive. The problem is that what "back to normal" feels like may differ from person to person, depending on the individual's circumstances and by what criteria they are judging the pandemic to be over. The Conversation …

WHO says COVID end is ‘in sight,’ deaths at lowest level since March 2020
2 years, 6 months ago

WHO says COVID end is ‘in sight,’ deaths at lowest level since March 2020

LA Times  

The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide last week was the lowest reported since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long pandemic. “Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap all the rewards of our hard work.” In …

Covid is nowhere near over, warns WHO chief amid spike in cases
2 years, 8 months ago

Covid is nowhere near over, warns WHO chief amid spike in cases

Live Mint  

World Health Organization's chief on Tuesday pointed out that Fresh waves of Covid-19 cases show that the pandemic is "nowhere near over". "New waves of the virus demonstrate again that Covid-19 is nowhere near over," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference, adding: "As the virus pushes at us, we must push back." "Governments should also work to reverse the …

Pandemic not over, says WHO as Covid cases rise in 110 countries
2 years, 8 months ago

Pandemic not over, says WHO as Covid cases rise in 110 countries

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic is changing but it is not over, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, cautioning that the cases are on the rise in 110 countries and are being driven mainly by two fast-spreading Omicron sub-variants. "On COVID-19, driven by BA.4 and BA.5 in many places, cases are on the rise in 110 countries, causing …

There will be another pandemic, infectious disease experts say. Here are 6 ways we can prepare for it
2 years, 9 months ago

There will be another pandemic, infectious disease experts say. Here are 6 ways we can prepare for it

CNN  

CNN — More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, we have reached a crossroads. “What we don’t want is to have our children, and perhaps our grandchildren, forget what we’ve been through.” Whether we’re going to apply lessons from the current pandemic remains to be seen, Frieden said, but doing so is key to ending that cycle, so that …

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’
2 years, 10 months ago

WHO chief: The COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’

Associated Press  

BERLIN — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.” The U.N. health agency’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the …

The AP Interview: US ‘vulnerable’ to COVID without new shots
2 years, 10 months ago

The AP Interview: US ‘vulnerable’ to COVID without new shots

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — White House COVID-19 coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha issued a dire warning Thursday that the U.S. will be increasingly vulnerable to the coronavirus this fall and winter if Congress doesn’t swiftly approve new funding for more vaccines and treatments. “That leaves a lot of us vulnerable.” Jha predicted that the next generation of vaccines, which are likely to be …

Biden marks COVID ‘tragic milestone’ in US at global summit
2 years, 10 months ago

Biden marks COVID ‘tragic milestone’ in US at global summit

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders at a COVID-19 summit Thursday to reenergize a lagging international commitment to attacking the virus as he led the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America. He spoke solemnly of the once-unthinkable U.S. toll: “1 million empty chairs around the family dinner table.” The coronavirus has …

Biden urges global COVID fight, US nears 1 million deaths
2 years, 10 months ago

Biden urges global COVID fight, US nears 1 million deaths

Al Jazeera  

World leaders held a summit to discuss efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future health threats. United States President Joe Biden appealed to world leaders to commit to a renewed international effort to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, as he marked the approaching “tragic milestone” of one million deaths from the virus in the US. “Today, we mark …

COVID is Here to Stay In a Milder Endemic Form, So Will Masking and Vaccination
2 years, 10 months ago

COVID is Here to Stay In a Milder Endemic Form, So Will Masking and Vaccination

News 18  

On my long flight to the US a couple of weeks ago, I had plenty of time to think about the COVID pandemic and ponder how things were last year this time, how it is now and how would it be a year from now. All these measures helped us considerably in facing the third wave, which came on the …

Fauci: US in ‘a different moment’ but pandemic not over
2 years, 10 months ago

Fauci: US in ‘a different moment’ but pandemic not over

Associated Press  

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday the coronavirus is under better control in the United States. “We are in a different moment of the pandemic,” said Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, in an interview with The Associated Press. “By no means does that mean the pandemic is over.” His comments came a day after he said on the PBS …

‘Perfect storm’ of disease ahead with vaccines delayed and measles cases up, WHO and UNICEF say
2 years, 10 months ago

‘Perfect storm’ of disease ahead with vaccines delayed and measles cases up, WHO and UNICEF say

CNN  

CNN — The World Health Organization and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund warned of an increased risk of measles spread, with worldwide cases up nearly 80% so far in 2022 compared with 2021. “Pandemic-related disruptions, increasing inequalities in access to vaccines, and the diversion of resources from routine immunization are leaving too many children without protection against measles …

'Pandemic phase' over for US, but...': Dr. Fauci's Covid assessment
2 years, 10 months ago

'Pandemic phase' over for US, but...': Dr. Fauci's Covid assessment

India TV News  

Dr. Anthony Fauci has given an upbeat assessment of the current state of the coronavirus in the United States, saying the country is “out of the pandemic phase” when it comes to new infections, hospitalizations and deaths, but that it appears to be making a transition to COVID-19 becoming an endemic disease — occurring regularly in certain areas. Fauci, the …

Coronavirus is under control in the U.S., but the pandemic isn’t over, Fauci says
2 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus is under control in the U.S., but the pandemic isn’t over, Fauci says

LA Times  

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday the coronavirus is under better control in the United States, but the pandemic isn’t over — and the challenge is how to keep improving the situation. “We are in a different moment of the pandemic,” said Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, in an interview with the Associated Press. “By no means does that mean …

UN official urges acceleration in coronavirus vaccinations
2 years, 11 months ago

UN official urges acceleration in coronavirus vaccinations

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. official spearheading global vaccination efforts against the coronavirus said Monday the number of countries where 10% or less of the population has been vaccinated dropped from 34 to 18 since January and called for accelerated progress to end the pandemic. Assistant Secretary-General Ted Chaiban told the U.N. Security Council that with over 6 million lives …

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic
2 years, 11 months ago

Experts say U.S. suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic

LA Times  

In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders — a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted. He said Uganda has leaned heavily on donor help — it received more than 11 million vaccines from the U.S. — and that any cuts “would make …

Experts say US suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic
2 years, 11 months ago

Experts say US suspension of COVID aid will prolong pandemic

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He said Uganda has leaned heavily on donor help …

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