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Re:Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report... by elia_is_me on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:03AM (#27138601)
covid-19 is not an issue now... it's a disaster but a solved disaster.
Re:Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report... by femto on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:00AM (#27139229)
It's not solved until the global number of people with COVID is low enough that COVID doesn't significantly mutate in the time that it takes to vaccinate the entire world with a compatible vaccine.

Currently more people have COVID than at any point in the past [1]. This means COVID is evolving faster, as it has more chances to mutate. The danger of a new vaccine evading strain emerging is increasing along with the number of global infections. There's a risk that the rate of mutation accelerates to the point where we can't get updated vaccines into people fast enough.

It's sobering that only 4% of the world has been fully vaccinated in 4 months [2] and the job will get more difficult once all the easy to access people are done.

[1] Assuming cases in a 2 week period is a rough proxy for number of currently infected people. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Re:Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report... by bitcharmer on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:07AM (#27138623)
Tell that to people of India
Re:Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report... by Synaesthesia on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:07AM (#27138625)
No. Maybe for some countries. But it's far from over.