More than 1,500 Americans are dying most days, worse than when cases surged last summer but far lower than the winter peak. And with millions of schoolchildren now returning to classrooms — some for the first time since March 2020 — public health experts say that more coronavirus clusters in schools are inevitable. The summer surge has played out in a fatigued, politically divided country with no unified vision for how to navigate the pandemic. You’re not going to conquer COVID, and it’s not going to go away forever,’” said Elizabeth Groenweghe, chief public health researcher for the public health department in Kansas City, Kansas. “What worries me the most is not where we’re at, although that’s bad enough, but where we’re headed,” said Andrew Noymer, an associate professor of public health at the University of California, Irvine.

Source: bd News24 September 05, 2021 19:52 UTC