Covid-19 is here to stay. People will have to adaptThe world is not experiencing a second wave: it never got over the first…
The worst is to come. Based on research in 84 countries, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reckons that, for each recorded case, 12 go unrecorded and that for every two covid-19 deaths counted, a third is misattributed to other causes. Without a medical breakthrough, it says,
the total number of cases will climb to 200m-600m by spring 2021. At that point, between 1.4m and 3.7m people will have died. Even then, well over 90% of the world’s population will still be vulnerable to infection—more if immunity turns out to be transient.
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The problem is that, without a cure or a vaccine,
containment depends on people learning to change their behaviour. After the initial covid-19 panic, many are becoming disenchanted and resistant. Masks help stop the disease, but in Europe and America some refuse to wear one because they see them as emasculating or, worse, Democratic.
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Covid-19 is here for a while at least.
You may have lost interest in the pandemic. It has not lost interest in you.https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/07/04/covid-19-is-here-to-stay-people-will-have-to-adaptPS Как всегда замечательная статья от Economist