- Fighting coronavirus in 2021 will be more difficult in 2020 due to new mutations, according to a World Health Organization official.
- While current vaccines should be effective against new mutations, recently discovered strains are considered to be much more infectious than the original ones.
- New coronavirus mutations have been found in the UK, Japan and South Africa.
The arrival of COVID-19 vaccines is likely to end the global coronavirus pandemic sometime in 2022, according to many health experts. However, there will probably be millions of new infections and an unspeakable number of associated deaths before we can put the coronavirus behind us permanently.
Especially with the emergence of mutant and more infectious strains of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the fight against COVID in 2021 may prove more difficult than in 2020.
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“We will enter a second year of this, it could be even tougher, given the dynamics of the transmission and some of the problems we are seeing,” said WHO official for emergency situations, Dr Mike Ryan. during an online event.
“Certainly in the northern hemisphere,” Ryan continued, “and especially in Europe and North America, we saw that kind of perfect storm of the season: cold, people coming in, increased social mix, and a combination of factors that led to an increase in transmission in many, many countries. ”
Unfortunately, Ryan’s prediction is already unfolding before our eyes here in the US. As Dr. Fauci and other health experts have warned, January is about to be the worst month in the entire pandemic.
The United States averages about 250,000 new coronavirus infections a day, a record five times the rate of infection in early October. This increase, it is worth noting, is not just a function of the more widespread testing, because we have seen a corresponding increase in coronavirus-related deaths in the same time frame. Last Tuesday, the US reported 4,406 COVID-related deaths in a 24-hour period, a record number.
More generally, Ryan earlier this week added that the coronavirus pandemic should serve as a wake-up call for the global community, as future pandemics could prove much more lethal.
“This pandemic has been very severe, spreading extremely fast around the world and affecting every corner of this planet,” Ryan said a few days ago. “But this is not necessarily the biggest. This virus is highly transmissible and kills people, so many people have missed their loved ones. But the current fatality is quite low compared to other emerging diseases. This is a wake-up call. ”
Regarding the evolution of the vaccination effort in the USA, New York Times the vaccine locator shows that the US has received 30.6 million doses of vaccine and that 11.1 million Americans have been vaccinated so far. In the future, the Trump administration recently said it would send more doses of vaccine to states that can administer them faster. In turn, states that cannot vaccinate their population in a quick clip will receive fewer doses.
As a prime example of the inefficiencies that continue to affect the launch of the COVID-19 vaccine, Michigan received approximately 831,000 doses, but administered only approximately 332,140 photographs.
A lifelong Mac user and passionate about Apple, Yoni Heisler has been writing about Apple and the technology industry in general for over 6 years. His writings have appeared in Edible Apple, Network World, MacLife, Macworld UK and, most recently, TUAW. When not writing about and analyzing the latest developments with Apple, Yoni enjoys catching Improv shows in Chicago, playing football and cultivating new addictions to TV shows, the latest examples being The Walking Dead and Broad City.