Some Articles About COVID-19

Here are links to some articles I've read recently about COVID-19 that I thought were worth sharing.

• Coronavirus.es are ‘clever’: Evolutionary scenarios for the future of SARS-CoV-2. "Some experts believe that the pandemic appears to be on an evolutionary slide toward becoming endemic, a “new normal” in which humans and the virus co-exist, as we currently do with influenza. But coronaviruses are clever. While an endemic resolution may be in sight, SARS-CoV-2 could still shock the human species with a devastating evolutionary leap."
• Is Our Pandemic the Ghost of the 1889 Russian Flu? "The ‘dreaded disease’ that claimed 1.5 million looks a lot like COVID-19, including the long-term threat posed by ‘viral promiscuity.’" This is probably the most interesting article that I've read all week and it's also quite worrisome.
• Why Covid-19 vaccines are a freaking miracle. We are very lucky that the vaccines have been developed so quickly and that they work as well as they do. This article gives a good sense of why their development is so remarkable.
• Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore. "Influenza, polio and more have shown that infections can change lives even decades later. Why the complacency over possible long-term effects of COVID-19?"
• COVID Long Haulers Are Calling Attention to Chronic Illnesses. "But society is not prepared for the growing crisis of long COVID." Read the article above about the 'Russian flu'; long-term aftereffects from pandemics have been a problem in the past.