Endemic: Living in a world with COVID

Endemic: Living in a world with COVID

This video discusses when and how to treat COVID as an endemic disease, using Singapore as a test-case. The arguments here are not original to me as I built this video based on the advice of a doctor in Singapore and in consultation with several others who study the mechanisms of disease spread. We all take COVID very seriously, and we support vaccination programs among adults.

However, many of us believe that the nations of the world need to work towards treating COVID like an endemic disease, more akin to the Flu than a disease where you restrict peoples' lives in perpetuity in the hopes of achieving the impossible - eradication of COVID.

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References:

1) All sorts of stats on COVID

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer

2) The "flatten the curve" image was from the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/article/flatten-curve-coronavirus.html

But it is based on a very common meme.


3) Data on Singapore covid cases and ICU usage can be found here:

https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/statistics

4) standard US advice on covid, even now:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/steps-when-sick.html

5) The hammer and the dance:

https://tomaspueyo.medium.com/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56