{"id":1288,"date":"2023-10-06T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2024-06-10T22:48:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T22:48:23","slug":"covid-23-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsci.case.edu\/fridaylunch\/2023\/10\/06\/covid-23-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-\u201923 and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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David H. Canaday, MD – Professor of Infectious Disease and Associate Director of Research for the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Cleveland VA<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Friday October 6, 2023
\n12:30-1:30 p.m.
\nMeeting Both In-Person and by Zoom
\nDampeer Room, Second Floor of Kelvin Smith Library<\/strong><\/span>*<\/strong><\/span>
\nCase Western Reserve University<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Colleagues:<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent journal article described \u201cCOVID-19 in the Fall of 2023\u201d as \u201c<\/span>Forgotten but Not Gone<\/u><\/span><\/a>.\u201d I wouldn\u2019t quite say it is forgotten. I count at least thirty significant articles in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0during September \u2013 compared to at most three on the flu. It is also hard to forget COVID-19 when a whole bunch of people I know, including myself and my wife, have caught it recently, or when CWRU is still notifying me that students have to miss class because of infections. The virus, its variations, treatment and prevention are still generating plenty of articles in the medical journals.<\/p>\n

Yet it is fair to say that as Fall began we were entering, in\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s headline, \u201c<\/span>Our First \u2018Nonemergency\u2019 COVID Season<\/u><\/span><\/a>.\u201d Attempts to track the virus by identifying individual infections have been replaced by surveillance of hospitalizations and of virus prevalence in water supply. It is becoming more like the flu; but that is not quite reassuring because (a) the flu kills a lot of people, and (b) SARS-Coronavirus 2 seems to mutate faster, for reasons both known (it doesn\u2019t go away during the summer) and not. One of The Atlantic\u2019s reporters described the pattern:<\/p>\n

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