One week until a unified, strategic federal strategy to combat COVID-19, protect residents, and get our economy back on track. @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris are coming in with a plan on day one.
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microbiology · cell biology · med ed
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CDC ensemble forecast projects 92,000 US deaths due to COVID-19 in the next three weeks.
The mind reels.
Epidemiology + outbreak science + health security. Faculty at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (@JHSPH_CHS).
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Community health workers have been central to improving public health around the world. President-elect Biden's proposal to support 100,000 public health workers would be a powerful investment for covid and beyond.
Dr. Beth S. Linas(she/her)
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PhD/MHS Infectious Disease & Digital Health Epidemiologist |#SciComm| @AAAS_STPF, @JohnsHopkinsSPH,& @BrandeisU alum | @500womensci |she/her/hers/Dr
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Eagerly awaiting @JNJNews #COVID19vax: “A single Ad26.COV2.S dose was associated with S-binding & neutralizing antibodies in more than 90% of the participants. The finding was observed in both adults age 18-55 years and participants 65 and older” medscape.com/viewarticle/94…
Reporter @nytimes on mainly #covid19 Winner 2019 Victor Cohn Prize. Before: Founding EIC @Spectrum, co-founder @CultureDish DMs open OR Apoorva@NYTimes.com
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One of our friends just told my husband that Covid is exaggerated, the numbers are not real and he's not going to get the vaccine.
I am stunned. But also deeply sad.
Our new commentary in @LancetMicrobe is out today, including #B117. Looking forward to working more on coronavirus sequencing with @laurabgoodman as she sets up her new lab at @bakercornell thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…
Physician, researcher, advocate for the notion that an ounce of data is worth a thousand pounds of opinion
Views here surely my own
Professor, Dean @Brown_SPH
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Smart plan by Biden team to put real $ for vaccines & testing
Trump Administration has consistently tried to skimp in these areas
It never made any sense
Fund widespread testing & vaccinations. It'll save lives and livelihoods
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Asst Professor @Georgetown_GHSS | Adj Professor @GeorgetownLaw | Pandemics, Infectious Disease, International Law, Planetary Health, Human Rights | 余雪莲 She/Her
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I just finished teaching an incredible group of engaged scholars in my intensive Epidemiology for Lawyers @GeorgetownLaw. So much respect for these students taking such a different class, while in the pandemic's epicenter, days after an insurrection, w warnings of more violence.
President & CEO @ResolveTSL | Sr Fellow @CFR_org | Former Director @CDCgov & Cmish @nycHealthy | Focused on saving lives | COVID-19 pandemic response & recovery
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The longer you spend inside around others, the more likely you could be infected. Curbside pickup and grocery delivery are safer options, especially in high-prevalence areas, if you can. bit.ly/3oNfmIl
Expanding public health workforce, rapid testing, food stamps, housing support, increased minimum wage, child care support and more. Things that actually help Americans weather this pandemic. Imagine if this had been implemented last year! twitter.com/maggiemfox/sta…
Epidemiology and global health security policy.
Here: https://t.co/jYjPWcddwu
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Economic support to enable people to comply with public health recs has been critical missing piece! “Under Biden's proposal, people who are sick or quarantining, or caring for a child whose school is closed, will receive 14 wks of paid leave.” cnn.com/2021/01/14/pol…
CEO of @Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and global health.
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Great read by @Gavi’s Anuradha Gupta on India’s “central role in the production and equitable supply of #COVID19 vaccines to people all over the world.” Grateful for India’s partnership and commitment to a global solution to this crisis: bit.ly/2N15UTO
There's something fascinating happening with African Covid vaccine procurement and this is probably a better thread for my niche global health alt account, but maybe it'll add something new to your timeline here
Samoa is expecting to take delivery of Covid-19 vaccines as early as February and the rollout is estimated to follow soon after, the Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegoi has revealed. rnz.co.nz/international/…
Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA
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Medicine / Infectious Disease / Epidemiology / Public Health / NYU prof / @BellevueHosp doc / Host @AmericanDxFm & @EpidemicPodcast / Husband @GrantWahl
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Epidemiology asst prof @BUSPH | Assoc editor for SoMe @amjepi | cohost @casualinfer podcast | @epiCOVIDCorps | #epitwitter | https://t.co/9tF74aEk8H
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Honestly... I’m still over here shook at the audacity of telling parents who’d been out of work for months and months and were facing a bleak Christmas “it’s all good cuz Santa can’t get COVID” and not “hey, here’s an basic minimum wage until we get this pandemic under control”
This is why @WHO's COVAX facility is so important for equitable #COVID19 vaccine distribution. The world needs to commit & collaborate to fund and support 🌎 vaccine rollout. We cannot leave others behind.
More from @AgatheDemarais here (📷 via @TheEIU): bit.ly/3qgDVO4pic.twitter.com/OwImLvk1DL
Science magazine staff writer on infectious diseases, outbreaks, immunology, vaccines, global health, genomics, CRISPR, primates, surfing. Views mine.
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If "I Voted" stickers and "Livestrong" bracelets work, why not this? @WarrenCornwall Q&A with marketing expert Stacy Wood takes a fresh look at strategies to encourage people to receive COVID-19 vaccines.
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Professor & Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health @McGillU. Associate Director, @McGill_TB. Tweets are my own views. Pronouns: he/him
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If the 100 year old TB vaccine worked, we won’t be having 10 million people getting TB every year pic.twitter.com/LC9qS8z9DX
There is NOT available vaccine for people without appointments. This was misinformation and the notification did not come from the NYC gov.
We are sending people to Brooklyn Army Terminal to ask people in line to return home if they don't have appointments. twitter.com/JessicaValenti…
I work @Yale focusing on operations research/epidemiology for infectious disease. In the real world: been an AIDS activist for ~30 yrs. Asst Prof YSPH.
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So, lots of reporters at places like @politico @axios @nytimes normalized Trump even through most of 2020, making excuses for pandemic policy under the "experts disagree" trope. They played a role in shifting the political debate in the US, they didn't just "do journalism." 1/
They moved Overton window to the right, far to the right. Because Trump was President, he was the "mainstream" for many of them. Words like lies were banned by editors like @deanbaquet who believed that this was taking sides. 2/
Now of course with the far-right further towards the center in the national zeitgeist the center-left of a Biden administration will occupy the far edges of the spectrum in their imaginations. This is how it will go down. Mark my words. end/
President & CEO @ResolveTSL | Sr Fellow @CFR_org | Former Director @CDCgov & Cmish @nycHealthy | Focused on saving lives | COVID-19 pandemic response & recovery
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People who have been vaccinated may think they no longer need to wear a mask or distance from others. Not true.
Second, we don’t yet know if the vaccine protects against infection or only against illness. In other words, a vaccinated person might still be able to spread the virus, even if they don’t feel sick.
Third, having some people not wear masks would undermine the public good that the more people who wear masks, the less the virus spreads. Practically, there would be no way, for example, for a shopkeeper to know whether an unmasked customer is vaccinated or not.
Remember—even if it feels like it is, the pandemic isn't forever. Things will improve. The pandemic will end, although not nearly soon enough. We all must do our part. Vaccinate. Minimize indoor contacts outside home. Mask up. Improve treatment. Test and follow up appropriately.
A *brilliant* 30-sec spot promoting the #CovidVaccine in New Orleans. (I'm not crying, you're crying.)
tweeps: What other cities or subpops have great media assets like this up & running? I ant wto assemble a greatest hits!
#publichealthtwitter #sleevesupNOLA @rebekahgeemd twitter.com/mayorcantrell/…
physician-scientist, author, editor
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I don't ever use all caps but:
"HERD IMMUNITY BY INFECTION IS NOT AN OPTION"
science.sciencemag.org/content/371/65… by @devisridhar and @dgurdasani1 @ScienceMagazine
(would just add that uncontrolled spread in Manaus may have helped-> P.1 variant) @GlobalHealthGP @EdinburghUni pic.twitter.com/Fp9Sx5zYe0
I've worked on all of science, from B cells to T cells.
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In Manaus
"Their data show the impact on mortality rates of a largely unmitigated outbreak where even with an estimated 76% of the population being infected, herd immunity was not achieved. "
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'This unfortunate city has become a sentinel for how natural population immunity could influence future transmission. Events in Manaus reveal what tragedy and harm to society can unfold if this virus is left to run its course.'
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Professor & Chair of Global Public Health, Edinburgh Uni Med School. Director of @GlobalHealthGP. Views own. ☀️
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New Science article w/@dgurdasani1. You might have wondered what would happen if we just let the virus go & lifted all restrictions & had a largely uncontrolled COVID-19 epidemic? We explain here what happened in Manaus, Brazil. Mass death. science.sciencemag.org/content/371/65…
Epidemiology asst prof @BUSPH | Assoc editor for SoMe @amjepi | cohost @casualinfer podcast | @epiCOVIDCorps | #epitwitter | https://t.co/9tF74aEk8H
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Very nice quote from @JuliaRaifman here that sums up my feelings about this news that college and university faculty are being included in phase 1b for COVID vaccination.
Some of us are essential but most aren’t & shouldn’t be prioritized. Link👉🏼insidehighered.com/news/2021/01/1…pic.twitter.com/3Nq4xuEekE
Article in @latimes by Gustavo Pena. Great mention for @BCM_TropMed @TCHGlobalHealth Vaccine Center and get mentioned by Congresswoman Norma Torres. It's clear #Honduras need to invest to "create opportunities to learn and develop science" @PeterHotez
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Dr. Angela Rasmussen
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Excessively direct virologist. Affiliate @georgetown_ghss. Soon @VIDOInterVac. Emerging virus host responses. 1X Jeopardy! loser. Rep: @anniescranton. she/her
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"There’s going to be a SARS-Coronavirus 3."
Excellent piece by @Ryan_Mac_Phd & @RodneyRohde on an oft-ignored topic in the origins debate: with all the SARS-like coronaviruses circulating in wild bats, another emergent SARS-CoV species is imminent.
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Research Associate Scientist @UNC studying HIV, oncoviruses, and SARS-CoV-2. International AIDS Society & AIDS Malignancy Consortium Fellow.
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Co-wrote this article with @RodneyRohde on SARS-related Coronaviruses, and how they pose a continuous threat to public health even after the COVID-19 pandemic eventually subsides.
The Imminence of the Next SARS Outbreak
Via @smerconish
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Excited to share the first paper from my team on our larger project on COVID-19 misinformation! 👀 Takeaway: misinformation and authority-questioning go hand in hand. bit.ly/3bBOAit #goteam #infodemic pic.twitter.com/NIvbUHYGy9
Check out our recently published paper 👇
Our results suggest that the cobranding of COVID-19 misinformation with conspiracy theories is indeed happening on Instagram, and this has likely promoted the sharing of untrue, skeptical, or authority-questioning beliefs. @CIHR_IRSC twitter.com/liz272/status/…
The @WorldBank recently published a blog on the impacts of #COVID19 on global poverty.
Here are some key stats from this piece that outline the stark reality of how the pandemic has affected global poverty. Read more here: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updat…pic.twitter.com/uIKsbw2vo7
Highlights of President-elect Biden’s COVID relief bill, which he will unveil tonight.
Total price tag: $1.9 trillion.
@cbsnews pic.twitter.com/Z7rE51smiW
Wer will schon Teil einer Herde sein? Deshalb gute Anregung von Eckart von Hirschhausen heute bei @maybritillner zur besseren Bezeichnung: "Gemeinschaftsschutz" statt "Herdenimmunität"
"We're really the science behind the safety”
"We need to address and accept the risk of aerosol spread or airborne transmission, because that's a key piece that's missing here.”
#COVIDisAirborne
Keep up the great work @kate_cole_ and @drdavidallen !!!
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Writing about Infectious Diseases, which now are dominated by COVID, but include many more pathogens. Posts in English. Retweets in Spanish, French, Portuguese
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"We are miles ahead"
The UK leads Europe in vaccination, but also deaths
Vaccination will take time to reach critical levels for the impact we need. pic.twitter.com/Etb5kG6n9C
Associate Prof @unisouthampton MBE FFPH MRCP MPH MSc PhD. Public Health. Epidemiology. Life’s too short to pretend. Personal tweets.RT≠endorse #CountLongCovid💙
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1/Please understand this. If coronavirus is allowed to circulate freely in a population which is mostly not vaccinated it has a bigger chance to mutate as we can see happening now. It’s bad news if mutations lead to vaccine resistance. Then even the vaccinated won’t be protected.
2/The other problem with ‘focused protection’ is it doesn’t account for the amount of illness generated by covid in those who don’t die from it. Letting the virus spread widely will not take us back to our old lives. It will overload the health service & cause workforce paralysis
3/The solution is to vaccinate most of the population as quick as possible. Then the virus won’t know where to go. Until this is achieved, apply structural & behavioural changes to reduce transmission and generously support people who isolate. I really can’t see another way out.
COVID vaccine passports being developed by Microsoft, Oracle and UK authorities. It may work just as well as Windows updates - something to look forward to <G> on.ft.com/3oFFmFz
NEW: In this critical time in the pandemic and vaccine distribution, this warning from an expert/historian: "We are failing at a government level on distribution because there is no game plan. There is a chaotic Trump one and a learning-curve Biden one." washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01…
Invasive fungal infection due to Psilocybe cubensis an hallucinogenic fungi, after IV injection of mushroom tea to self-treat depression. What a “trip”to ICU. Fungi are soooo cool. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.live…
Infectious disease MD (also CCM and EM)working on pandemic policy, emerging infections, preventing bioterror https://t.co/R0HIThvzbj…
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In this @NatBCo piece I’m quoted about some simple risk calculations people can make when thinking about activities in the midst of #COVID19 washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/ho…
The pandemic is accelerating a shift toward a quantified society: a society in which measurement and predictive modelling dominate (political) decision making, and where surveillance is expansive and pervasive. A new op-ed by @jessehirsh: cigionline.org/articles/how-c…
I’m going to show you some before/after pictures of what your lungs and heart look like from covid thanks to the innovative work being done by @drwilliamli and @Survivor_Corps.
I think it will help you, especially the deniers, to have a visual of the actual damage covid does.
COVID-19 vaccination update in Connecticut:
➡️154,994 1st doses administered
➡️16,041 2nd doses administered
➡️TOTAL: 171,035 doses administered
The feds notified the state that we will be receiving an additional 50k doses as a reward for being among the fastest states. pic.twitter.com/FCCH7817NA
@jasonlschwartz Wow, many questions. Did other states off to a fast start also get a 'reward'? How might that amount be determined? Did poorly performing states see a reduction in allocations? They have these extra reward doses just lying around?
Reporter @nytimes on mainly #covid19 Winner 2019 Victor Cohn Prize. Before: Founding EIC @Spectrum, co-founder @CultureDish DMs open OR Apoorva@NYTimes.com
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NEW: Is the new variant just as dangerous in children is it in adults? Is it more contagious in kids? What does it mean for schools? I heard these questions enough to take a deep dive. 1/6
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Diego Bassani 🏠😷 #COVIDzero
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"Over all, though, the variant was more contagious in each age group than previous versions of the virus. The mutant virus will result in more infections in children unless schools shore up their precautions, experts said." twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/st…
"The coronavirus variant discovered in Britain is more easily spread among children, as it is among adults. Current safeguards should protect schools, experts said, but only if strictly enforced."
Associated thread by the article author @apoorva_nyc
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a nice thread on the new Variant.
The good news is that it is no more lethal on kids, however it spreads easier both on adults and on kids. twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/st…
Dr. Sujana Chandrasekhar
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Please read anything by @apoorva_nyc -you will learn a LOT. And then tune in to @ShesOnCall. This Sunday Jan 17, 11 am -12 noon ET @LashNolen & @ajcalac -medical students, activists, current & future leaders. Next Sunday Jan 24 -Apoorva & @drninashapiro on writing about #COVID19 twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/st…pic.twitter.com/E09xNjG9w1
A thorough take on the contagiousness of the new variant and what it means for schools.
The good: the same precautions work if followed.
The bad: no room for half-measures.
The ugly: if the situation gets out of hand, schools will have to close, resulting in further hardships. twitter.com/apoorva_nyc/st…
Prof at @HarvardChanSPH; Commissioner + Chair Task Force on Safe Work/School/Travel for The Lancet COVID19 Commission. Coauthor of "Healthy Buildings" (HUP)
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And, for good measure:
100% agree w @apoorva_nyc here:
“the report showed that young children were about half as likely as adults to transmit the variant to others. That was true of the previous iteration of the virus, as well.” nytimes.com/2021/01/14/hea…
Prof at @HarvardChanSPH; Commissioner + Chair Task Force on Safe Work/School/Travel for The Lancet COVID19 Commission. Coauthor of "Healthy Buildings" (HUP)
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100% agree w @mugecevik here:
“We need to find ways to return these kids back to school as soon as possible; we need to use this time period to prepare.” nytimes.com/2021/01/14/hea…
Adding B.1.1.7, double-focus needs to be on smart prevention at school.
"The schools that closely adhered to the guidelines have not seen many infections, even when the virus was circulating at high levels in the community": @ErinBromage
By @apoorva_nyc
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What Does a More Contagious Virus Mean for Schools? @PHE_uk report “showed that young children were about half as likely as adults to transmit the variant to others. That was true of the previous iteration of the virus, as well,” @apoorva_nyc @nytimes nytimes.com/2021/01/14/hea…
Prof at @HarvardChanSPH; Commissioner + Chair Task Force on Safe Work/School/Travel for The Lancet COVID19 Commission. Coauthor of "Healthy Buildings" (HUP)
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100% agree w @jenkinshelen here:
“...schools should be the last thing to close,” said Helen Jenkins. Keeping schools open carries some risk, but “I think it can be reduced substantially with all the mitigations in place” nytimes.com/2021/01/14/hea…
Important explainer from @apoorva_nyc on what the new variant means for schools: The variant spreads more easily in all age groups, but young children are still half as likely to transmit it as adults, which is good news for schools. (1/3)
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Prof at @HarvardChanSPH; Commissioner + Chair Task Force on Safe Work/School/Travel for The Lancet COVID19 Commission. Coauthor of "Healthy Buildings" (HUP)
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100% agree w @ErinBromage here:
“When the system is designed correctly and we’re bringing children into school, they are as safe, if not safer, than they would be in a hybrid or remote system,” he said.” nytimes.com/2021/01/14/hea…
Prof at @HarvardChanSPH; Commissioner + Chair Task Force on Safe Work/School/Travel for The Lancet COVID19 Commission. Coauthor of "Healthy Buildings" (HUP)
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100% agree w @uche_blackstock here:
Even if the new variant brings a spike in cases, the city’s policy of closing a school if it has two unrelated infections is “too conservative,” she said. nytimes.com/2021/01/14/hea…
Appreciate this thoughtful take, & reflected again while reading it how sad, unjust, & irrational it is that in my community, for most of the #COVID19 pandemic, *everything* has been open *except* for public schools. We will be paying the price of this choice for a long time. twitter.com/j_g_allen/stat…
Thank you to @MariaCaspani85 for including me in your @Reuters story about the vaccine rollout for teachers!
“I cried when I made the appointment,” said Sari Rosenberg, who is scheduled to receive the vaccine next week, describing her anticipation.
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Just in: @ASlavitt joining Biden COVID task force, reuniting him w/ @jeffzients from their days of fixing HealthCare.gov.
It's just a temporary assignment -- although, of course, so was the Obama administration work. Then he stayed to run CMS.
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Writing about Infectious Diseases, which now are dominated by COVID, but include many more pathogens. Posts in English. Retweets in Spanish, French, Portuguese
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The longer we let COVID simmer, the longer it has to not just a) cause badness for us b) develop variants that spread and cause more badness but c) find an animal host that will make it a lot harder for it to go away
We know the history of SARS-CoV2 includes bats and even pangolins.
Early food market involvement raised questions of intermediary-human contacts associated with livestock, food animals. Experience with mink points to livestock propagation
But what this all means is that what we saw with mink may be replicated with other animals over time, animals we have less control over, have more contact with, or less surveillance over
It's possible this virus from human origins could find a home in another animal, another continent, making it that much harder to eradicate. Amazonas, Brazil, is facing a surge, there's no time to survey all the Amazonian animals for SARS-CoV2 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32315124/
The only reason we were able to stop smallpox after centuries of inoculation and vaccination is that it was only in human hosts (and was pretty easy to spot). It's really hard to put the genie back in the bottle if it finds a new niche.
Even as other countries become New Zealands and Vietnams, we run the risk of having COVID haunt us, like Ebola, popping up from time to time from its animal home.