They’re really trying to make this happen
US warned to get ready as Europe deals with new COVID-19 rise
Rising COVID-19 cases in Europe are setting off warnings that the U.S. could experience a new surge this winter.
Previous jumps in the U.S. have followed a pattern in which cases first rise in Europe, making officials nervous they could see a spike in U.S. cases as the weather turns.
The most recent data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control shows that cases began going up around the beginning of September in Europe
The seven-day average is roughly 230,000 cases per day, reflecting rates that were seen in late July when Europe was still dealing with the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariant wave.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated last week that a rise in cases in Europe was expected due to cooling temperatures, but stressed that hospitalizations and deaths did not have to rise as well due to the viral therapeutics that are now available.
I’m sure the powers that be will start crushing us with ads and such about getting vaxed and boosted, but, really, do most people really trust that anymore? It really has become basically a flu shot, where it mostly will just keep you from getting the Wuhan flu badly?
Ali Mokdad, epidemiologist and professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, told The Hill the contrast in the regions can be attributed to multiple factors, including warmer temperatures in the U.S. and differing levels of community immunity.
“In the U.S., we have a higher infection rate than many European countries, where more people have been infected here. So we have a little bit more immunity than they do, but still we have waning immunity,” Mokdad said.
Well, Europe opened up much earlier, they made sure that more people were exposed to COVID, giving them natural immunity, rather than keeping people locked down for too long
COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations in the U.S. will likely begin going up in three to four weeks, Mokdad said, though they won’t reach the same levels seen during the omicron wave last winter. He emphasized that this projection is contingent on a situation in which new coronavirus variants that are better at escaping immunity don’t rise in dominance.
Do you think they’ll try and implement masking again? And then when masking doesn’t work, vaccine mandates?
Experts who spoke with The Hill strongly encouraged people to get the updated bivalent booster ahead of the holiday season.
“The best holiday present that you can give — whatever you celebrate — that you give for yourself and your family members is protection and safety. And the best way to do it is to go and get your booster and your flu shot,” Mokdad said.
Shocking! The flu will get worse as flu season approaches!
And let’s face it: COVID-19 has mutated into what is just about as serious as the flu. Highly contagious, but rarely hospitalization serious or fatal.
We really have no idea how many people have contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus, because for the vast majority, the disease isn’t that serious anymore, so they don’t report and don’t test. If they do test, many will opt for a home test, some of which will be improperly done, and most people to do take home tests won’t report the results for the statistics to be compiled.
Get your Covid booster and flu shot.
Since there were so few flu cases the last couple of years (thank handwashing, masks, social distancing and work-from-home), it’s likely most Americans have little immunity left for the coming round of influenza.
Don’t let the anti-vaxxers get you killed!
Don’t let the anti-vaxxers get you killed!
dowd, every time you comment it’s a propaganda ad. It’s like you study Josef Goebbels and just spew out the reich nonsense.
Vax fraud deniers are everywhere even here. dowd now tries to compare a flu shot with the fake vaccine that we were told will protect us from getting and spreading the Wuhan glu which it did neuter.
The flu shot has been tried and true for years. The ongoing propaganda about the fake vax is Big Pharma propaganda. I wonder how much Pfizer pays dowd to continue with the lies even after the truth is all over if one just looks?
You continue the bullshit “Since there were so few flu cases the last couple of years (thank handwashing, masks, social distancing and work-from-home), it’s likely most Americans have little immunity left for the coming round of influenza.”
Knowing “there were so few flu cases” not for the reasons the propagandist stated but because people with the flue were deliberately diagnosed with Wuhan because it paid better THAN THE FLU. Leave it to commieboy to keep up the false illusion of the Wuhan mortality rates even as we all know now Wuhan deaths were misdiagnosed flu patients.
As usual the demofascist never lets the truth get in front of a good line of propaganda.
Fauci lied. we all know. The CD and other health services lied. The media and social media lied. In fact just about everyone was lying but nobody now admits it. These leftists are nothing but psychotic liars.
Don’t take your medical advice from democommie propagandists!
MAGA
Luther,
You have your conspiracies tied into knots.
Please cite evidence that flu cases were misdiagnosed as Covid. Over one million died from Covid. How many do you claim actually died from influenza?
Please cite evidence that Covid vaccines do not slow the spread of Covid.
BTW, the flu vaccines change every year.
Did you get any Covid vaccines yourself?
That’s the thing about losing credibility. I have long distrusted the flu shot too, now more people are like me and wonder if it was ever “effective” if I am getting another one every year and still might get the flu. And now that I know that all of the government health watchdogs are corrupt, I believe a healthy level of skepticism is called for.
Just because the Measles shots work doesn’t mean Flu and Covid shot should have automatic credibility.
The right answer is that people should do research and make an informed decision for themselves about each vaccine, just like they do for their other medical needs.
As much as I believe America would be better off with fewer nuCons, please get your Covid and flu shots.
Thanks for the faux concern, Rimjob.
Actually conservatives would be better off with fewer Rimjobs and their whore wives.
And your wife is a whore. .
As long as we are giving each other self-serving advice, please stop using the internet. And get your polio shot updated. And one for shingles and another for monkey pox.
I was sold the flu shot as an annual thing. Once a year especially for older peeps and peeps with things like diabetes and lupus and such. I was never told it was a vaccine or one time shot an I was n ever told it will permanently prevent the flu. So my comment was based on that experience.
I did not get a flu or Wuhan shot so far but I did get a polio, smallpox etc. as a kid. I never believed the Wuhan was a vaccine especially when they started to change the definition of exactly what a vaccine is. And once I observed people were getting it more and more as they were vaccinated so I bowed out. My friend and neighbor made me persona non grata since I wouldn’t get the vax. She and her husband both had the Wuhan twice and their twin sons of 12 had it once. My family is unscathed.
It was sold as a vaccine which it is not. It was sold with immunity from law suits for any reason including negligence for the product and all those involved with its development, manufacture and delivery to the patient. That is negligent. It does not stop one from contracting Covid. It does not cure Covid. It does not stop the spread of Covid and I don’t believe it lessens the effects of Covid and that that story was spread as a last ditch effort to sell a failed experimental drug and make the rich richer.
There is no good reason to take an experimental drug with zero proven benefit which can and has killed and maimed thousands of Americans with legal impunity unless you are a nut case or a programmed clown of the left.
The entire thing was a scam. Now I’ll say it: Don’t get your medical advice from Elwood!