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A Simple Rule of Thumb for Knowing When the Pandemic Is Over
At some point maybe even soon the emergency phase of the pandemic will end. But what, exactly, is that magic threshold?
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In the middle of January, the deadliest month of the pandemic, one day after inauguration, the Biden administration put out a comprehensive national strategy for “beating COVID-19.” The 200-page document includes many useful goals, such as “Restore trust with the American people” and “Mount a safe, effective, and comprehensive vaccination campaign.” But nowhere does it give a quantitative threshold for when it will be time to say, “Okay, done we’ve beaten the pandemic.”
On Monday, the U.S. marked nearly a year since the ongoing coronavirus pandemic arrived on our shores by reaching a horrid milestone: 500,000 Americans dead from the virus.
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Centre has also asked states to look into strict, comprehensive surveillance and stringent containment to curb the spread of the virus.
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Centre has also asked states to look into strict, comprehensive surveillance and stringent containment to curb the spread of the virus.
The Centre has written to States Kerala, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and J&K which are witnessing a daily surge in the number of daily COVID-19 cases directing an increase in proportion of RT-PCR tests while ensuring that those testing negative with Rapid Antigen be retested by RT-PCR.