US Federal COVID-19 task force expects waves of COVID-19 infections in upcoming fall/winter months

I am so over being even slightly worried about Covid.

I've been exposed to it on quite a few occasions and haven't had even a sniffle.

Cancer is scary. I know, I've been there. Covid is not.

a reply to: Uphill

Oh, yeah the yearly viral infections that always hit the US in the winter month, you know the old good flu season.

I guess now will be rebranded, "covid season", nothing to see anymore, just another sale pitch for the 5th useless boost.

Plus mid term elections, be afraid the monkey pox is coming to get you.

a reply to: marg6043 -- "flu season" has almost nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. What has become the "annual" flu infection is a group of viruses from the influenza family of viruses, a completely different family from the coronavirus family ... COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a member of the coronavirus family, which is a poorly understood family of viruses, at least at this time. Virologists have been able to develop new treatments for flu in weeks to months because they have a vast quantity of prior knowledge to draw on. That global knowledge base is mostly lacking for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In addition, monkeypox is a member of yet another family of viruses, meaning that a completely different data set is involved in understanding diagnosis, treatment, possible complications, and the like.

originally posted by: Uphill
a reply to: marg6043 -- "flu season" has almost nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic. What has become the "annual" flu infection is a group of viruses from the influenza family of viruses, a completely different family from the coronavirus family ... COVID-19 is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a member of the coronavirus family, which is a poorly understood family of viruses, at least at this time. Virologists have been able to develop new treatments for flu in weeks to months because they have a vast quantity of prior knowledge to draw on. That global knowledge base is mostly lacking for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In addition, monkeypox is a member of yet another family of viruses, meaning that a completely different data set is involved in understanding diagnosis, treatment, possible complications, and the like.

Where are you getting your information?

a reply to: mtnshredder -- everyone, an accurate overall picture of the US development and course of the COVID-19 pandemic is provided by US Internal Medicine specialist William Miller, MD, in Northern California. His periodic "Miller Reports" on this pandemic are provided in a link at the bottom of the following page:

www.advocate-news.com...

One of his earliest "Miller Reports" explains that while the 1918 "Spanish Flu" pandemic was caused by a virus from the influenza virus family, our current COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a member of a different virus family, the coronaviruses.

If so, it's my opinion that the US public health community really fumbled its chance to communicate with the US public when the first SARS disease emerged in the 1st few years of the 21st century. The entire world was incredibly lucky to get past the SARS outbreak so quickly. Why? Consider that due to the 1918 flu pandemic, the influenza virus received scientific interest and much study following the invention of the electron microscope in 1930, which made it possible for the first time to easily identify and study viruses and virus families. As a result, by the 1st 20 years of the 21st century, about 90 years of virology data was available, mostly on the influenza virus family, which is now fairly well understood. We are currently nowhere near that same level of understanding of the coronavirus family, which is not good.