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Shocker: NYTimes publishes piece saying experts believe pandemic will be over ‘far sooner' than expected
2020-10-18
[LI] The recent move by the World Health Organization (WHO) to recommend that nations end lockdowns as the chief means of controlling the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus was intriguing.

However, in a recent piece that is nothing less than shocking, a new report from The New York Times says that experts are confident that the coronavirus pandemic will end "far sooner" than originally expected.

Like me, New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil Jr., has been following the pandemic closely since its start. He assesses its current status optimistically:
Since January, when I began covering the pandemic, I have been a consistently gloomy Cassandra, reporting on the catastrophe that experts saw coming: that the virus would go pandemic, that Americans were likely to die in large numbers, the national lockdown would last well beyond Easter and even past summer. No miracle cure was on the horizon; the record for developing a vaccine was four years.

Events have moved faster than I thought possible. I have become cautiously optimistic. Experts are saying, with genuine confidence, that the pandemic in the United States will be over far sooner than they expected, possibly by the middle of next year.

One aspect of the pandemic to watch for is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying that the number of deaths falls below the "epidemic threshold."
"The ’epidemic threshold’ refers to the point at which the observed proportion of deaths is significantly higher than would be expected at that time of the year in the absence of substantial influenza, and now COVID-related mortality," Kristen Nordlund, a CDC spokeswoman, told USA TODAY.
The last few weeks have shown a steady decline in deaths per week attributed to COVID19.

The high in April was over 17,000 deaths per week.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  War was A-Okay Againâ„¢ when Obama became president suddenly. And so on...
Posted by: magpie   2020-10-18 14:00  

#5  I remember the terrible terrible recession of 1992 that was over before Bill Clinton dropped his pants in the oral office.
Posted by: Airandee    2020-10-18 12:19  

#4  When a Democrat wins The Panicâ„¢ ceases -- I remember the same in 2006.
Posted by: magpie   2020-10-18 10:31  

#3  Could've sworn the CDC downgraded the Chink Flu from pandemic to epidemic a few months ago?

Of course, there's a reason the national media keeps calling it a pandemic - it adds to the panic pr0n they've been pushing since Day One.
Posted by: Raj   2020-10-18 08:00  

#2  NYT, what do you expect?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-10-18 05:27  

#1  november 4th?
Posted by: 746   2020-10-18 03:56  

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