If only we had a way to slow down or stop the spread of disease.
Someday, far onto the future, scientists will figure it out!
Around the world, a post-Covid reality is beginning to sink in: Everyone, everywhere, really is sick a lot more often.
At least 13 communicable diseases, from the common cold to measles and tuberculosis, are surging past their pre-pandemic levels in many regions, and often by significant margins, according to analysis by Bloomberg News and London-based disease forecasting firm Airfinity Ltd.
The resulting research, based on data collected from more than 60 organizations and public health agencies, shows that 44 countries and territories have reported at least one infectious disease resurgence that’s at least ten times worse than the pre-pandemic baseline.
The post-Covid global surge of illnesses — viral and bacterial, common and historically rare — is a mystery that researchers and scientists are still trying to definitively explain. The way Covid lockdowns shifted baseline immunities is a piece of the puzzle, as is the pandemic’s hit to overall vaccine administration and compliance. Climate change, rising social inequality and wrung-out health-care services are contributing in ways that are hard to measure.
We can explain it, covid takes a toll on our immune system, and we are constantly exposed to it and can catch it multiple times a year. No one in public office wants to acknowledge it because that would mean putting money and effort into infection control.
H5N1 is a type of an influenza A virus. A recent study found Influenza A infections make you more susceptible to Covid.
Yeah but you’re forgetting there is a 52% chance that H5N1 makes you permanently immune to covid.
It’s going to be backwards though, bird flu isn’t good at infecting humans, the immune deficiency caused by covid will make it easier for bird flu to infect humans which will greatly increase the odds of mutating a strain that infects humans more readily
It would be nice to know if the flu shots they give out have any crossover protection. Oh well, I guess we’ll find out.