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"On March 11 2020, as COVID continued to spread rapidly around the globe, the
World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared a pandemic.
More than 7 million people have since died from COVID. The virus, and the
public health measures enacted to control it, have had far-reaching effects on
societies around the world.
Five years on, the virus continues to circulate. But, thanks to vaccines and
immunity acquired from infections, hospitalisations and deaths due to COVID are
vastly less frequent than in previous years.
Meanwhile, long COVID continues to have a major impact on people’s lives.
Estimates suggest more than 400 million people around the world have had or are
currently living with long COVID.
At this point, Australia and the world must take the lessons of COVID – in
areas from surveillance, to outbreak response, to vaccines and therapeutics –
to be better prepared for the next pandemic."
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