Sunday 19 September 2021

Six rules that will define our second pandemic winter

The pandemic keeps changing, but these principles can guide your thinking through the seasons to come.

  • The role of vaccines has changed (again)
  • The proportion of vaccinated people matters, but who they are and how they cluster also matters
  • The people at greatest risk from the virus will keep changing
  • As vaccination increases, a higher proportion of cases will appear in vaccinated people—and that’s what should happen
  • Rare events are common at scale
  • There is no single “worst” version of the coronavirus

Read here (The Atlantic, Sept 20, 2021)

Worst ever Covid variant? Omicron

John Campbell shares his findings on Omicron.  View here (Youtube, Nov 27, 2021)