We are on the 1918/9 influenza timeline but we have vaccines. Nicely said here:https://mobile.twitter.com/DFisman/status/1354983449581518857 …
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Sure, but there are many places in the world that won't be able to vaccinate significant swathes of their population in the short term, with insufficient transmission to halt a new epidemic. Depends mostly on what we mean by "many places"!
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I can’t see anything else happening but won’t it take a huge amount of work to bring it in line even with seasonal influenza let alone the seasonal coronaviruses?
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1918/9 ended without vaccine. We have a vaccine but that’ll take work.
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When and if it becomes a seasonal, endemic illness, would greater precautions be needed than during a moderate influenza season? In other words, will a higher risk person need to stay home all winter, every winter ? I normally avoid stores and most people in flu season already

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We don’t know but if vaccines are so effective maybe no but there are plenty of other virus like influenza, as you said, so masking could help reduce your risk
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The Novavax trial found that reinfections were frequent in South Africa. However both CFR and death rate in current wave are both higher than first wave; these would both need some explanation if these reinfections were mostly mild. https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1354922533997473798?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/fCID5wWGX9
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But severe? If this becomes a bad “cold” that would be expected.
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