ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: This month President Joe Biden declared the coronavirus pandemic over. But local infectious disease and public health experts see things differently.
Unfortunately, it isn't. We're going to see more of what we have been seeing. There's some very troublesome variants out there that have more immune evasion than the BA.5 that we had to contend with through the summer. We're already seeing a significant uptick in the European Union. And you mentioned that things are coming down in the U.S.
But it's true, you might have flu like symptoms, you might have a headache, you might have respiratory issues, but the flu doesn't result in up to 20% of people who have the flu having long term disability. The flu does not have these long term cognitive effects that we're seeing in COVID. And so while in the short term it might feel like, oh, this was just kind of a bad flu, the long term effects are clearly a lot worse.
We never had a pill like Paxlovid. The best we've had with flu has been Tamiflu. That doesn't work that well. This is a virus that we can triumph over. It's been about three weeks since the government rolled out new COVID-19 boosters that target both the original strains of the virus as well as omicron. But numbers released this week said only about 2% of eligible people have gotten it. Does that surprise you?Well, not really, because we've had a booster problem all along. In this country, we're less than a half of the use of uptake of boosters in any high income country in the world.
San Diego's COVID-19 numbers have been trending in the right direction, but we have been on something of a roller coaster over the past few years. What can you tell us about new developments as winter approaches?Well, roller coaster is a good term here, so going to get ready for the next ascent in the months ahead. I think because the numbers are turning down here, we have some weeks ahead that will be relatively quiet.
Well, they're not so slowly rising, they're going up substantially in several countries. And it tells us what happens in Europe doesn't stay in Europe. And every single time it comes here. Not directly, of course, but it's the same story in terms of the variants taking hold and then the winter months and more people inside, the lack of mitigation measures for the reasons that have been discussed, all these things basically help the virus, give it legs.
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