Covid will continue, but the end of the pandemic is near - Lancet

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Covid will continue, but the end of the pandemic is near – Lancet
By Yen Makabenta
January 25, 2022

AMONG the world's medical journals, The Lancet is rated as one of the most authoritative, influential and credible on public health and global medicine. In a comparative study conducted by Wikipedia, The Lancet was ranked at the very top along with The New England Journal of Medicine, among others.

Founded in 1823 by Thomas Wakley, an English surgeon who named it after the surgical instrument called a lancet (scalpel), the weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal publishes original research articles, reviewed articles ("seminars" and "reviews&quot , editorials, book reviews and correspondence as well as news features and case reports.

In the new year, on January 19, The Lancet published an illuminating article by Dr. Christopher JL Murray that places in perspective the pandemic situation and what he believes will happen to Covid-19, titled "Covid will continue, but the end of the pandemic is near."

Dr. Murray is an American physician, health economist and global health researcher. He is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is chairman of Health Metrics Science and the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

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https://www.manilatimes.net/2022/01/25/opinion/columns/covid-will-continue-but-the-end-of-the-pandemic-is-near-lancet/1830537

[Lovie777]

1. Sars 2 Covid will continue but hopefully at the rate of colds and flues ....

in the very near future even with it's variants.

The vaccinations are working to at least dilute the virus with the help of masks.

Thank you worldwide to the people who cared about their fellow souls in getting the vaccines and wearing masks and following covid mandates.

[Scrivener7]

2. It's nice news and I hope it is correct, but this particular article is based on

someone studying IHME models. IHME models are ridiculous. They are horribly constructed and they have not been anywhere near the ballpark since the beginning of Covid.

They rose to prominence in covid statistical sources when TFG used them to claim that Covid would kill 60,000 people, that it would just disappear, that it was no worse than seasonal flu.

I don't know why reputable publications like the Lancet are still publishing their nonsense. But I do think it's odd that the linked article never links to the Lancet article it purports to be quoting.

[WHITT]

3. BUT

Do not assume COVID pandemic reaching 'end game', warns WHO


GENEVA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday that it was dangerous to assume the Omicron variant would herald the end of COVID-19's acutest phase, exhorting nations to stay focused to beat the pandemic.

"It’s dangerous to assume that Omicron will be the last variant and that we are in the end game," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a WHO executive board meeting of the two-year pandemic that has killed nearly 6 million people.

"On the contrary, globally the conditions are ideal for more variants to emerge."


https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/who-chief-says-world-critical-juncture-covid-pandemic-2022-01-24/