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Georges Benjamin, the executive director of the American Public Health Association, is also no fan of the term “bivalent.” “It’s shining this awful light on how bad public health communication really is,” said Castrucci. It’s scientifically correct, meaning “a pair of homologous chromosomes.” But most normal people don’t have a clue what that means. But uptake of the new “bivalent” vaccines has been dismal - only about five percent of the eligible population, POLITICO reports. Vaccines are the best way of preventing severe disease - and the hope is the new “bivalent” vaccines, which work on both the Omicron variants and the original 2020 version of the virus, will both protect against severe disease and reduce milder “breakthrough” infections. “The canary has already died - but we’re still working in the mine,” said Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, a public health organization. But they are being underutilized and poorly messaged.

Those things that loop over ears to cover noses and mouths - the four-letter M word. We have tools to blunt the next round of Covid. Here’s where there is broad agreement: the U.S. But there’s no real consensus on how severe the next phase might be - a surge, a spike, a big wave, a more modest “wave-lette.” Public health experts we’ve spoken to are generally not expecting a catastrophic surge, not like we experienced with Omicron last winter - although they have grown wary of trying to predict exactly what a highly unpredictable virus is going to do next. Plus, caseloads and hospitalizations are rising in Europe, usually a signal that we’re next. Warning signs are mounting - showing up in some U.S. They are worrying about tomorrow’s.Ī winter wave, and a new batch of covid variants, may arrive earlier than we expect. Scientists aren’t looking at yesterday’s death toll, though. That’s still a lot, but it’s lower than it’s been for a long time. Daily deaths have finally fallen below 400. Most of the country has blithely moved on from the pandemic, which is undeniably and blessedly not as bad as it had been.

SURGE PROTECTION - Winter is coming - in the fall. A Covid testing site in Brooklyn, New York.