Should COVID-19 follow the pattern seen with the 1918 Spanish flu, we could well see the pandemic come back even stronger this fall and winter in a second wave that hits far harder than the first one did. This is according a report from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. The team behind the report includes medical directors and pandemic experts.
The paper lays out three scenarios, with the worst one seeing a major resurgence of the deadly disease by the end of the year. In a second potential scenario, this year’s outbreak would be followed up by several smaller waves moving into next year, while a third scenario would see viral transmission in a “slow burn” without a distinctive pattern.
The researchers looked at eight major influenza pandemics around the world going back to the 1700s, along with information about the novel coronavirus, to make their predictions on how COVID-19 could spread in the future.
The report warns that there’s no way to predict what will happen, just as no one really could have predicted just how bad the current outbreak would get....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...
