As COVID-19 is no longer an epidemic in Australia, and has not yet settled into a baseline endemic, it is somewhere in between.
As Australia marks the third anniversary of its first case of COVID-19, it finds itself in a “a strange place” in the pandemic landscape, according to Adrian Esterman, professor and chair of biostatics and epidemiology at the University of South Australia.“The disease is no longer epidemic, meaning we are not seeing more cases than expected. Neither is it endemic, grumbling along at a baseline rate.
As the number of people with long COVID will grow over the next couple of years, more services need to be planned too. “This virus has foxed us before, and might still develop into a new strain more transmissible than omicron and more severe than delta.”and most died only last year. This is not unusual. Around the world, people seemed to have disconnected from the metrics – the numbers of cases and deaths – they were once obsessed with, and have moved on.But that is not happening everywhere. While China suddenly lifted its severe restrictions, unlocked its borders and frightened the world, attendees at the World Economic Forum inIt was the first in-person winter annual meeting at Davos since the start of the pandemic and everyone was asked to test before arriving.
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