It’s time to redouble and refocus our efforts to fight covid, not retreat | The BMJ
▻https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2423
As Americans embrace what #McKinsey and Company has called “#individual_endemicity” — in which people let their risk tolerance dictate the preventive measures they take—transmission rates remain at dangerous levels in nearly every county of the US.
Throughout the summer, the US recorded approximately 3,000 deaths per week, at least the equivalent of a 9/11’s worth of deaths each week, and often more. The delta and omicron surges took 350 000 American lives in seven months, almost seven times as many fatalities as claimed by the most severe flu season in years. In early September 2022, covid-19 was the second leading cause of death in the United States, claiming more lives than stroke and common cancers.
