Mac soared higher than my hopes for the future *ago

#MAC SOARED HIGHER THAN MY HOPES FOR THE FUTURE *AGO FREE#

It is so highly infectious, for the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike, that in the next two or three months, IHME scientists say, it could infect three billion people-more than a third of the world's population. That includes the U.S., where case counts have soared to more than three times the previous peak seen in January 2021. It has overtaken the Delta variant in 110 countries, says the World Health Organization ( WHO). With billions of people left to infect, Omicron still has plenty of maneuvering room for mischief. Will the virus morph into something benign like the common cold? Or will it pester us like influenza, requiring yearly shots and constant vigilance for the next pandemic? Or will it break with convention entirely and follow some new, horrific path? Scientists are calling on the Biden administration to take steps to cope with the long-term implications of living with SARS-CoV-2. Scientists are in near-universal agreement that the virus will be a fixture for generations to come.Д®ven if the pandemic soon winds down, it's not clear what our future with SARS-CoV-2 will look like. But one thing is reasonably certain: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is not going away. It's too early to know which scenario best describes the near future, and will probably be knowable only in retrospect. In this view, Omicron subsides only to be replaced by yet another troublesome new variant that causes more illness and death and extends the pandemic.

The pessimistic scenario, which unfortunately is equally valid, starts with that familiar bugaboo: the random threat of some new, unforeseen mutation of the COVID-19 virus rising up and dashing our hopes.

#MAC SOARED HIGHER THAN MY HOPES FOR THE FUTURE *AGO FREE#

When-if-that happy day arrives, the world will begin making the transition from continual crisis to something more manageable-a slow-boiling concern that keeps scientists and public-health officials occupied but leaves the rest of humanity free to go about the daily business of life. The optimistic scenario goes something like this: Once Omicron is through ravaging the world, enough people will have acquired natural immunity that, together with those who have been vaccinated, the virus is suppressed to more or less permanently low levels in the population. It is possible, but far from certain, that the Omicron onslaught marks the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. If the pattern of South Africa holds up in the U.S., that decline will be steep. According to the scientists at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington (IHME), which runs computer models of the pandemic, the number of daily reported cases in the United States was expected to hit a maximum of 1.2 million by January 19, and then decline. The Omicron wave currently washing over the world may soon hit its peak.

Mac soared higher than my hopes for the future *ago