https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/sytkc91plg#google_vignette
“We’ve seen a slightly more significant wave of COVID-19 over the past three months, and we are now in the midst of that wave,” said Professor Tal Brosh, head of infectious diseases at the Assuta Ashdod public hospital and head of the Health Ministry’s epidemic response team. He sought to reassure the public: “These are not the huge waves we saw in 2021-22 when hundreds of thousands of Israelis were infected one after another and hospital wards filled. Since the start of COVID there has always been ongoing illness, sometimes a bit more and sometimes a bit less. It comes in waves, and most of the time it simply doesn’t interest the public.”
Infectious Disease specialists are an interesting bunch. Most of the time they're detail-obsessed and boring, asking endless questions and fancying themselves to be medical versions of Sherlock Holmes. But they're rarely exciting. There are no dramas following "Dr Jones, ID specialist!" The only time you see them in movies or on the media is during a pandemic when they suddenly become superstars.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's hard to let that go. CoVID was their biggest moment since swine flu. They were the stars. And now CoVID is part of the ecosystem, about as deadly and contagious as the flu and a routine element of life for us. So yes, the public has lost interest in something that will never go away and, for the vast majority of people, will no longer cause a great threat barring an unforseen mutation.