COVID-19, COVID-19, COVID-19! That is all we have been hearing about since February of last year, as though that is the only infectious disease that is occurring at the present time. Yes, this probably is the most startling pandemic of our lives. Yes, this newly recognized coronavirus causes all sorts of unusual and unexpected signs and symptoms in humans, strange pathogeneses, age-specific illnesses, high case-fatality rates in certain human populations, has racial biases, is found over a wide host range, has caused political chaos, economic impacts, media and Trumpian nonsenses, etc. Well, we are now in 2021 (We never changed the name to COVID-20, so I expect we won’t change it to COVID-21 or COVID-22; it might be best to just drop the number as this might take years to fully subside.) and this nightmare continues and unfortunately may continue until vaccines help to control the pandemic, then the epidemics, then the outbreaks, then the clusters of cases. After that, it is likely that humans will be inconvenienced and life-threatened by this virus for the foreseeable future.
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