{"id":27519,"date":"2023-05-08T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=27519"},"modified":"2023-05-08T13:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:25:04","slug":"disease-experts-warn-white-house-of-potential-for-omicron-like-wave-of-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=27519","title":{"rendered":"Disease experts warn White House of potential for omicron-like wave of illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/7COQSGJQRCH3UDGHXTP2WPTQF4.JPG&amp;w=1440\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"129\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Experts reached a consensus that there\u2019s a roughly 20 percent chance during the next two years of an outbreak rivaling the onslaught of illness from omicron.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2023\/05\/05\/covid-forecast-next-two-years\/\">Disease experts warn White House of potential for omicron-like wave of illness<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote this &#x2b07;&#xfe0f; while reading &#x2b06;&#xfe0f;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 in 5.  roll the dice, comes up 1 and we&#8217;re back to omicron-level infections; hopefully less deadly, but that&#8217;s not a garuntee. (link???)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;with experts reaching a consensus that there\u2019s a roughly 20 percent chance during the next two years of an outbreak rivaling the onslaught of illness inflicted by the omicron variant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Again with the waste water testing!:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWe have continued detection of \u2018<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolidEvidence\/status\/1652404073839181824\" target=\"_blank\">cryptic lineages<\/a>\u2019 in wastewater surveillance, suggesting that it\u2019s not uncommon to have run-away evolution of a persistent infection within a single individual,\u201d Bedford wrote, cautioning that much is unknown about these variants, including the identities of the individuals harboring the viruses, their symptoms and whether the variants are transmissible.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So could those funds, 50B$US, be used to have 2 things: 1) wastewater testing everywhere, reporting to public deashboards?, and 2) robust reporting systmes for pandemic-like sympotms; this likely already exists for other things, just need to make the corrections we discrovered necesary during the covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;House Democrats counter that the remaining coronavirus funds are necessary to prepare for future pandemics and to fortify the nation\u2019s public health system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts reached a consensus that there\u2019s a roughly 20 percent chance during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[169,740,920,1317],"class_list":["post-27519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic","tag-raw","tag-waste-water-monitoring","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}