COVID-19 Now Just Another Respiratory Infection
Dr Sheena Meredith | Disclosures | 09 January 2024
Low Public Health Risk From Latest Variant
The latest variant, JN.1, a descendant of the SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 lineage first identified in August, harbours various mutations that make it more transmissible, according to laboratory analysis published in The Lancet last week.
COVID "Just Another Respiratory Infection"
Professor Mark Woolhouse, chair of infectious disease epidemiology at Edinburgh University, agreed that "COVID is now just another respiratory infection", but stressed "that does not equate with ignoring it. On the contrary, we all need to pay even more attention to respiratory infections than we did before the pandemic".
He added: "From observation, many people are taking respiratory infections far more seriously." How long they will continue to do so remains to be seen, but "it’s quite possible this will be the new normal. I hope so anyway."
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In other words a seasonal cold.
Cure: Mix one heaped teaspoon of salt in a mug of warm water. Cup a hand and sniff or snort the mugful up your nose, spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. If sore you have a virus, so wait 2-3 minutes until soreness goes away, then blow out your nose on toilet paper and flush away, washing your hands afterwards, then continue 3 times daily, or more often, but Morning, Noon, Night, until soreness goes away and it feels like you are flushing with water - me many years never ill, just by doing this, including with Covid - probably good for Long covid too, as it flushes the nasal passages of the head, behind the eyes, ears, brain bulb, brain stem - unlike a vaccine shot in your arm, of all places - you don't get a viral infection in your arm do you?