Do people know that the 1890 pandemic was likely caused by another coronavirus, OC43 (that was then novel?) Nowadays, no longer novel, it is one of the causes of the common cold. We're obviously not living in the OC43 pandemic since, and we won't live in a COVID pandemic forever.
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Unlike many terrible *past* pandemics (yes, past), we have vaccines now. Ideally, we move forward by learning from all this: how to get ready for next time, and how to reduce disease burden from all respiratory illnesses. But viruses do not stand outside biology and history.
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One informed dissent to my "likely"—though I'll keep the original point: pandemics end and viruses don't stand outside of all known biology or history. We're facing a coronavirus (not the first time), and there are already vaccines.https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1442534762783072259 …
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Another informed perspective on what else it may have been. (I'll repeat: it ended!)https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1442541684651225088 …
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There are too many public health officials who have made covid edicts and mandates their raison d'être. They won't stop now.
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it is a triumph of humanity that we got workable vaccines as quickly as we did in this pandemic. distribution and willingness of people to take them is another story though.
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I've been confused why we're not mining past research on non-novel coronavirus more. There has been at least half a century of purposely infecting people in controlled environments and testing how it spreads. Eg Jennifer Ackerman wrote about them:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7824024-ah-choo …
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Still experience 389,000 (range 294,000 to 518,000) annual deaths mainly from reverberating echos of the 1918 pandemic. Naively assuming stable annual rate, that's nearly 40 million more dead over a century. Not an acute pandemic but a substantial number.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/ …
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