Experts Call For A National Strategy To Manage Control Of An Endemic COVID-19 It Requires Agreeing On An “Acceptable” Number Of Deaths The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has yet to end, but several observers have begun to identify lessons learned or to call for a national strategy for dealing with the anticipated new realities of living with COVID-19 under endemic rather than pandemic conditions. Other experts have called this effort premature in light of the remaining unknowns, and even those calling for the new strategy acknowledge the uncertainty and call for humility in making predictions. More than 2,000 COVID deaths in the US are still occurring each day.
What Endemicity Requires Writing in a series of commentaries in JAMA and in a special JAMA interview, experts who helped create President Biden’s COVID strategy a year ago are now seeking to focus attention not so much on what remains to be accomplished to make COVID endemic, but instead on what endemic conditions will require if we are to maintain a desired degree of control over endemic COVID. - Strategy con't on page 2
Communication During The COVID-19 Pandemic Being Seen As Flawed And Ineffective “The most consistently botched part of the US pandemic response” is how one commentator evaluated the public health efforts at communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. Other commentators have been even harsher in their criticisms by accusing public officials of making bad decisions and even lying or being deceitful about what they were saying.
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Some Failures Recognized Concern about communication has existed for some time. The National Academies undertook a review of communications during the COVID health crisis last year and made several recommendations last month. And the - Communication cont'd on page 4
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In This Issue -3Hopkins Report On Tons of Bad Info -5Notes On People -7Event Calendar -8Marketplace This Month