By Christian Edwards and Kara Fox, CNN
US President Joe Biden has said he believes the COVID-19 pandemic is “over”, even as the country continues to see around 400 deaths per day. In an interview Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” the president claimed that the U. S. The U. S. department of state still has a “problem” with the virus — which has killed more than a million Americans — said that, in its view, “the pandemic is over. “
The message prompted White House officials to temporarily explain that Biden’s comments did not mean a replacement in strategy: the U. S. government. While the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still designates Covid-19 as a public fitness emergency. The U. S. government relaxed its rules to allow other people to return to the maximum bureaucracy of normalcy.
But older people, immunocompromised people, other people with certain disabilities or underlying health problems are still at a higher risk of becoming seriously ill and may still need to take more precautions.
Biden’s comments have already garnered political commentary. They come just two weeks after his management filed a crusade urging Americans to get vaccinated and renew their efforts to convince Congress to spend an additional $22. 4 billion on covid mitigation efforts. However, Republican leaders told CNN they would. Be less willing to contribute budget for a pandemic that is already “over”.
While some have interpreted Biden’s comments as a cynical intervention ahead of the upcoming U. S. midterm elections. In the U. S. , it follows other positive reviews from world fitness leaders. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, said last week that the end of the pandemic “is in sight,” noting that the number of weekly deaths reported is the lowest since March 2020. “We’ve never been in a better position to end the pandemic,” he said.
But what does it mean to “end the pandemic”? Pandemics are not like sports matches: they don’t start and end with a referee’s whistle. However, who has a formal way to determine the beginning and end of a pandemic?A qualified committee of 18 members makes the decision, as it has done before for influenza, polio and other diseases. Still, it’s less difficult to know when a pandemic begins than when it ends, according to Caroline Buckee, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Harvard School of Public Health. clinical threshold. There will be a consensus based on opinions,” Buckee told the online journal Science.
Meanwhile, China is continuing its covid-0 strategy, a policy that came under scrutiny this week, after a bus carrying citizens to a Covid quarantine center crashed on Sunday, killing at least 27 other people. Authorities said the bus was carrying 47 other people from Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province, to a remote county more than 240 km away. It capsized on a stretch of mountainous road around 2:40 a. m.
Soon after, a photo that circulated widely on social media showed the bus running at night, with the driver dressed in a full suit and with only his eyes uncovered. hazardous materials. According to government data, only two other people have died from the virus in the province since the pandemic began, raising new questions about China’s hardline policy.
And while China and the United States continue to take radically different approaches to the pandemic, a report by the Lancet Covid-19 Commission condemned the global reaction to the disease and called the death toll, which the WHO says exceeds 6. 4 million, “both a profound tragedy and a major multi-level global failure. They cited poor government preparedness, poor global collaboration, and the influence of disinformation on citizens who have resisted public fitness precautions.
• A recent study of more than 6 million people over the age of 65 and older found that other people with Covid-19 had a particularly high risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease within a year of contracting the virus. The study doesn’t show that Covid is a cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but it delves into previous studies linking Covid infection and cognitive function.
• Former first-born melania Trump was “shaken by the coronavirus and convinced Trump was screwing up,” according to an upcoming e-book. Trump recalled telling her husband, “You’re exploiting this,” as she tried to convince him to take the pandemic more seriously. “It’s serious. It’s going to be bad,” he said, according to the e-book through New York Times frontman White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker editor and analyst. CNN World Affairs Susan Glasser “You worry too much,” she recalled saying the president downplayed her considerations and said, “Forget it. “
Q: Is there a link between Covid and health?
A: According to a recent study, you may be up to 50% more likely to develop a long Covid if you suffer from common psychiatric problems.
People who suffered from anxiety, depression or loneliness, or who felt very stressed, were more likely to live a long time with covid, according to the study, published this month in the medical journal JAMA Psychiatry.
Symptoms of prolonged covid can present with respiratory problems, brain fog, chronic cough, overwhelming fatigue, changes in taste and smell, and difficulty fulfilling life’s purposes that can last for months or even years after the infection has disappeared from the body.
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Keep up with your Covid vaccines this fall, especially if you’re 50 or older.
In fact, the virus continues to pose a threat to other people in this age group, who have been disproportionately affected by the severe consequences of covid.
Between April and June, other people over the age of 50 accounted for the vast majority of COVID-19-related hospitalizations (86 percent) and hospital deaths (96 percent), according to a CDC study released Thursday.
Additional data from the CDC shows that even for other people age 50 and older who earned two of the original boosters, the risk of hospitalization was less than a quarter of what it was for those who were not vaccinated in July. The updated Covid-19 vaccine is at least two months after completing the initial two-dose vaccine series or its recent maximum booster.
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