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06-26-2022-1044 - After 40 million dead birds, hot weather may be killing off the bird flu virus

 

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/06/after-40-million-dead-birds-hot-weather-may-be-killing-off-the-bird-flu-virus/
People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over
Historians of the 1918 influenza pandemic discuss lessons for what the future of COVID might look likehttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-not-science-decide-when-a-pandemic-is-over1/


Why AI Failed to Live Up to Its Potential During the Pandemic
by Bhaskar Chakravorti
March 17, 2022
 
Martí Sans/Stocksy
Summary.   
The pandemic could have been the moment when AI made good on its promising potential. There was an unprecedented convergence of the need for fast, evidence-based decisions and large-scale problem-solving with datasets spilling out of every country in the world. Instead, AI failed in myriad, specific ways that underscore where this technology is still weak: Bad datasets, embedded bias and discrimination, susceptibility to human error, and a complex, uneven global context all caused critical failures. But, these failures also offer lessons on how we can make AI better: 1) we need to find new ways to assemble comprehensive datasets and merge data from multiple sources, 2) there needs to be more diversity in data sources, 3) incentives must be aligned to ensure greater cooperation across teams and systems, and 4) we need international rules for sharing data.
https://hbr.org/2022/03/why-ai-failed-to-live-up-to-its-potential-during-the-pandemic

The Pandemic of Unknowns
Reaching a New Normal in an Age of Uncertainty
By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker
January 22, 2022
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2022-01-22/pandemic-unknowns

Next pandemic could be more lethal than COVID, vaccine creator says
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/next-pandemic-could-be-more-lethal-than-covid-oxford-vaccine-creator-says-2021-12-06/

COVID-19 Pandemic Continues To Reshape Work in America
As more workplaces reopen, most teleworkers say they are working from home by choice rather than necessity
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/02/16/covid-19-pandemic-continues-to-reshape-work-in-america/

Long COVID Has Become the ‘Pandemic After the Pandemic’
Lingering or new symptoms can – and will – affect many people long after infection with COVID-19, so researchers and clinicians are focusing on the causes and effective treatments.
By David Levine
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March 10, 2022, at 9:53 a.m
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-03-10/long-covid-has-become-the-pandemic-after-the-pandemic

Will COVID ever end? A forgotten pandemic from the late 1800s might offer some clues
BY
ERIN PRATER

April 23, 2022 1:31 PM EDT
https://fortune.com/2022/04/23/when-will-covid-end-meet-the-russian-flu-forgotten-pandemic-coronavirus-covid-19-sars-cov-2-omicron-fauci/

Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore
Influenza, polio and more have shown that infections can change lives even decades later. Why the complacency over possible long-term effects of COVID-19?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00414-x

Here’s What the Next Six Months of the Pandemic Will Bring
The race between vaccinations and new variant strains won’t end until Covid-19 has touched almost everyone.
Covid Compared to Other Pandemics
The five well-documented influenza pandemics of the past 130 years offer some blueprint for how Covid might play out, according to Lone Simonsen, an epidemiologist and professor of population health sciences at Roskilde University in Denmark. She is an expert on the ebb and flow of such events.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-12/6-month-covid-outlook-2021



On March 13, 2020, by Proclamation 9994, the President declared a national emergency concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.  The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant risk to the public health and safety of the Nation.  For this reason, the national emergency declared on March 13, 2020, and beginning March 1, 2020, must continue in effect beyond March 1, 2022.  Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing the national emergency declared in Proclamation 9994 concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.

JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. 

THE WHITE HOUSE,
February 18, 2022.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/02/18/notice-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-concerning-the-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic-2/



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