‘Covid is not going to go away’: Australia will require public health measures for foreseeable future, say experts

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Vaccine inequity and emerging variants mean the future of the pandemic is increasingly uncertain, researchers say

Infectious diseases expert and director of the Doherty Institute, Prof Sharon Lewin, said: “Last year, I definitely did not think we would be in this position.”

These variants are immune evasive; whether that immunity comes from vaccination, or infection from other variants and subvariants. They are also highly infectious; between 10-to-20 times more so, Lewin says, than the original strain first identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. “Even if it’s just a very small percentage of those that end up in hospital, it’s still a large number overall, and the same is true with regard to long Covid which may potentially gives us a big burden of disease over time.

magazine, researchers argued that vaccine equity – along with access to treatment for HIV in Africa and curbing stigma – could help the world see fewer Covid variants emerge.

 

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Wouldn't that be good?

Meanwhile we continue to not investigate the origins of the virus. It's better to die on our feet than live on our knees.

A deeply weird article, ignoring the obvious expert predictions that selective immune pressure on spike protein from leaky vaccines would see most mutations on the spike protein: ergo vaccines are a large driver of mutations. Which is what we're seeing.

Yes Australia really F'd up not following scienec and data along with forcing vaccines that are not fully approved yet as studies into safety are not complete on healthy low risk people, one of the most infected places on earth now per capita now, get a jab to stop the spread..

wow, plenty of epidemiologists were saying it would keep evolving, that vaccines plus were needed, even WHO. Disturbing that we are now pretending that this wasn’t to be expected.

Right premise, wrong conclusion : it’s never going away, but risks are tolerable, so we should not reimpose measures referenced in the article

Oh piss off already. The last 2 years were all for nothing especially for us poor bastards in down here in Victoria. How about reporting some real news.

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