fuck the media coverage of covid (:
Will it end with a new generation, a future-proof vaccine or will the virus keep mutating until it eventually runs out of steam?
"COVID-19 will "fizzle out" and, like the common cold, become a virus we get at a young age, says James Trauer, an associate professor at Monash University's school of public health and preventative medicine.
"Children born today, who start getting their first exposure before they hit school, it’s not going to be an issue for them."
Because of this, he says, community-wide mandates are no longer needed.
"I don’t see any role to reducing community-wise transmission. I think we still need to look at reducing transmission in high-risk settings, [such as] hospital and aged care [but] the sort of controls we would need to put in place to reduce community-wide transmission are just not acceptable to people now and not really necessary either."
huh. meanwhile...
High case numbers across Australia have people with long COVID and vulnerable people worried about what it will mean for them with few peopl
"Ms Pope's fears are echoed in a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into long COVID and repeat COVID infection from Australian National University professor Quentin Grafton and other researchers.
"Both the mortality risk (all causes) and the risk of hospitalisation at six months of long COVID increase substantially with one symptomatic infection, then continue to increase with each additional symptomatic COVID infection," the submissions stated.
"Thus, Australians should expect an escalating accumulation of morbidity and mortality if COVID is continued to be allowed to spread, more or less, unchecked through the population.""
