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https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/merry-christmas-and-a-happy-new-year-from-covid/>
"I cannot believe I am writing another column on Covid. Covid is so last year,
the year before, and the year before that. The best and brightest—the noisiest
voices about getting back to normal from the past three years—have taken their
erstwhile concern for Americans’ public health and gone back to their lucrative
concierge medical practices, writing about reviving the American dream, and
pooling education data for worried upper-middle-class parents. Normal is as
normal does.
But as we head into the new year, Covid is still very much with us. The flu, as
always, is back again, and RSV levels are still high—though showing signs of
heading out with 2023. According to the CDC, “in the past 4 weeks,
hospitalizations among all age groups increased by 200 percent for influenza,
51 percent for COVID-19, and 60 percent for RSV.… If these trends continue, the
situation at the end of [December] could again strain emergency departments and
hospitals” and “strain on the healthcare system could mean that patients with
other serious health conditions may face delays in receiving care.” Is this the
normal we signed up for?"
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: December 28, 2023
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-95419817
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
