{"id":72522,"date":"2021-12-17T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=72522"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T19:39:59","slug":"politico-5-pandemic-predictions-for-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/prophecy\/politico-5-pandemic-predictions-for-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: 5 pandemic predictions for 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night, Politico<\/em> posted the following:<\/p>\n

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5 pandemic predictions for 2022<\/h2>\n

December 16, 2021 8:00 pm<\/p>\n

WE ARE NOT THERE YET<\/b> <\/b>\u2014 As we enter the third year of the pandemic, my mind keeps flashing back to a trailer I saw last year for a widely panned Michael Bay movie<\/a>, which portrays an unlikely dystopian pandemic future, but captures the feeling of helplessness and despair that so many \u2014 even those of us lucky enough to have access to vaccines and the privilege to social distance \u2014 feel right now with the country on the brink of an Omicron surge.\u00a0 …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are five predictions for 2022:<\/p>\n

The U.S. will hit one million deaths in the spring. <\/b><\/p>\n

Earlier this week the country hit 800,000 Covid deaths and is still recording about 1,300 deaths a day. Even if the Omicron death rate is lower, the overall infection rate will likely be higher, leading to another surge in deaths, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. …<\/p>\n

We will run out of room on our vaccination cards.<\/b><\/p>\n

The mRNA vaccines are proving to be not as long lasting as we had hoped, said Hotez, who is working on a low-cost recombinant protein vaccine.<\/p>\n

Even three doses may not be enough. \u201cWe haven\u2019t hit the ceiling yet of how high we can get an immune response,\u201d said Kirsten Lyke, a vaccine researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who has been studying Covid shots. …<\/p>\n

We will be talking about an Omega variant. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will go through the whole Greek alphabet,\u201d said Syra Madad, an infectious disease epidemiologist and senior director of the system-wide special pathogens program at NYC Health + Hospitals. We may not hit the Greek alphabet\u2019s last letter in 2022, but it won\u2019t be a distant possibility. …<\/p>\n

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