Will COVID-19 ever go away? | Inside Story

It is no longer a global health emergency, but Covid-19 is still a threat.
That is according to the World Health Organization, which is now monitoring a new variant called EG.5.
It is not necessarily more dangerous than other variants, but it is spreading fast across several countries.
From the US to Japan and China, the strain appears to be highly transmissible.
So, is Covid-19 here to stay?
And with so many variants constantly emerging, will booster shots even make a difference?
Presenter: Nick Clark
Guests:
Paul Hunter - Epidemiologist and Professor in Medicine at the University of East Anglia.
Oksana Pejek - Global Health Adviser and Global Engagement Lecturer at University College London School of Pharmacy.
Dr Ishwar Gilada - Consultant on Infectious Diseases and President Emeritus of the AIDS Society of India.
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[@summersenzsibiya5942]

i miss the era when medicine was conducted through research not through politic

[@Solscapes.]

I don't think it's ever been fully free of political and corporate influence. The pharma control of the DSM. The scientists who said smoking is good for you, who are the same ones who said fat does what sugar does, and they are the same ones who say climate change isn't real. Dr. Witten's half-century stranglehold on physics, the financial sector's hold on economics. Psychiatry as a whole is questionable, given their reliance on "bad brain chemistry" and their history of poisoning dissidents, when people depressed by gaslighting are fed anticholinergics. Scientists will claim that there is a safe level of lead in someone else's environment, despite that there is no safe level of lead. Always someone working for the lead industry. Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, so you better believe that philosophy and the powers that be have been entangled, and one corrupted by the other, in the time since.

[@CursedCommentaries]

Its The Science(tm) :D

[@cpt_kirkwood]

This dude really said “they’re only senior citizens and people with comorbidities and they’d be getting anything and everything anyway” in other words, “who cares about vulnerable people” is what he should have outright said. BTW, once you get long covid, you’re in the group of people highly susceptible to covid complications. Lingering symptoms 1 out of every 10 infections. If you get reinfected over and over, it’s only a matter of time until they don’t care about you once you’re disabled. Long covid patient here, and I can tell you talks like these are extremely depressing. People essentially don’t care whether you live or die so they can go eat out at restaurants.

[@marahthonmeeh9625]

Honestly, life has to go on. There’s NOTHING we can do to stop from dying whether it’s from this thing we call Covid or not. You may have to go back to scriptures & and read about how death & disease became a thing in the world. I want to support you, but I can’t if you think people are suppose to be at a pause in life because you may be scared or you may believe we live forever.

[@packageism]

Long covid is all in the mind

[@lindakelley2676]

Yeah, for many it conveniently gets rid of old people, which America isn't braced for because they pay caregivers unlivable wages. It's still 3 times deadlier than the flu and the 1% mortality is still a million people but people are so self centered, unless it effects them, they don't care. Communities couldn't even make efforts to not spread it, in fact made sure they did spread it and make it last so much longer than necessary.

[@claudiasimpson9606]

Could be that Long Covid is a side effect of people that have been vaccineed !!!. Why aren't they informing the public about that. If you were Jabbed and the vaccine worked, then why are people suffering from this condition ... It could be the Vaccines right !!!.

[@h.b.7104]

@@marahthonmeeh9625 Nobody said you should pause your life. But having a little bit of sympathy and resources for those who are disabled from a disease is the LEAST we can do. Instead we bury our heads in the sand and pretend Covid is over.

[@hardworker-y4z]

it will go away when they stop releasing it

[@vk311z8]

So whatever happen to the Herd immunity they were talking about once a majority of the population got vaccinated ?

[@eileenspamer]

all a big phoney scam to flog you snake oil

[@lw1zfog]

these days they like to use the term ’hybrid immunity’. don’t forget to ‘fOlLoW tHE $ciENcE’ T&C subject to change.

[@thomasdearing7718]

Lol that was another lie from the Government.

[@shafiyaalgiquadra1105]

When the Indian doctor began to say this is less dangerous than the common flu they stopped him really quickly😂

[@unpluggsoftwaresolutions4497]

And what’s funny is that the guys is saying the same thing that the other guy is saying. But the presenter seems to be interested in presenting his own view to suit the narrative of the video I guess

[@markcunningham6442]

didn't fall for that last time what makes you think will fall for it again bullshit

[@lw1zfog]

in the early days it was nigh on sacrilegious to compare the convid to the flu, & anyone caught doing so was likely to be deemed a wholly reprehensible economy over life loving, far right, anti science, orangemanbad cultist, who should more than likely be cast out from society. Projecting ourselves forward by a couple of years & we find that even the likes of Herr Doktor Faux Chi & wee Billy Hates habe now done a 180 on the subject, suggesting that the convids would now actually be a ‘seasonal’ situation, & that their ‘sAFE & EfFecTiVe & fUlLY tEsTED’ medical intervention issued under E.U.A. might need to be applied annually .... just like the flu wax. $CIENCE!™️ INC. BELIEVE !!!

[@Kancutiron]

Definitely true !!! That indian doctor need more chemotherapy

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

He wasn't indian. He's from Hindustan because India isn't the correct name for the continent...

[@davidcottrell1308]

no. it is here to stay.

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

No, it's not! If we can get all you foreigners off our land. We will be fine!

[@charlesleeneihaus592]

When are the people going to be able to use ivomectin the medical jerks took ivomectin off the market because it work

[@bobthebuilder9553]

That's like asking if the flu will ever go away or allergies. What nonsense.

[@JadeMoniqueEvelynElizabe-kn3dd]

Wait until you or your loved ones die from the corona or its variants!

[@spanishdancer6221]

The Indian doctor has a very thick accent that makes him difficult to understand, plus he speaks so fast.

[@kingreich22]

Use Closed Captions on the video...hope that helps.

[@wmjohns881]

I agree. Whenever I order a delivery pizza, I am connected with a call center in India. I have a difficult time understanding the Indian agent. Crazy that I have to talk to someone thousands of miles away in India to have a pizza delivered from 5 blocks away.😢

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

​@@wmjohns881😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@greatsol2444]

Where did it come from? Who is responsible for its’ creation?

[@vanessawalker2656]

They are lying again.

[@Hollyucinogen]

At this point, most people in my country (Canada) have come to the conclusion that it was intentionally leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. 😒 Edit: I believe that John Campbell (a retired nurse educator from Britain) has come to that conclusion as well.

[@fawziamcdaniel8548]

Will never go away. God is not happy with too many evil people on this earth

[@peterprentice9179]

is that why there are so many deadly tornadoes etc in conservative USA states? . . . too much evil there?

[@markhartung]

Viruses never do go away......

[@nowhere474]

LAB BOURNE VIRUSES DON'T HAVE A LONG LIFE SPAN

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

Oh, your god must be the devil...

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

​@markhartung not true! Where's the Spanish flu?

[@Hollyucinogen]

So does this one have a 98.7% survival rate like the last one? Just curious. 🤔

[@lw1zfog]

what did a novel respiratory virus with an I.F.R. < 1% ever do to you ?

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wnklee6878]

If 7 million people died among our 7 billion then one in a thousand died.

[@Professor__S]

Not sure about that.. But I heard apparently 27 shots will ensure you don't get covid. I'm not sure that include boosters😏

[@Hollyucinogen]

@@wnklee6878 Your comment has about the same level of relevance as if I pointed out that almost every adult drives a car, but car crashes are very common, so cars should be illegal. 🧐

[@beautyaroundtheworld4658]

Lets hope that our Gain of Function experts make a new and better virus and save the planet.

[@dragoonseye76]

No

[@JenniferMacrae]

It will never go away as long as the corrupt government and the WHO ARE AROUND

[@YOUR-WORD-IS-YOUR-BOND]

If it's up to CDC, it won't go away...

[@MsJoyce31202]

Doesn't seem like it.

[@janh461]

5GE microwave radiation

[@huggy1712]

Covid will go away if we all stop watching news on t.v and just live day by day and be happy just my opinion take care

[@khaledaakter7586]

we want democracy, freedom of speach.

[@borunelectronics3408]

Ozone water spray bottle can be used for daily disinfection

[@snezdimi6695]

I am with covid at the moment. Didn't get it before even I am a nurse and it was all around me. I was taking vit D than and now stopped for several months. I lost taste and smell. Very bad cough and fever for 4 days.

[@phillipproussier3723]

In that case you are not a very bright nurse. I had exactly what you had *back in 2015* . Let that sink in. What "they" say is only on the News and on paper. You are still asleep. 🤡🐑

[@Hollyucinogen]

Dude... ....you're basically describing a cold. This isn't dangerous; you'll be fine. 🤨

[@palapalak.8907]

I just got it too. Severe headache, sore throat, g.i. symptoms. Coughing now.2 weeks now. Several friends got it now!

[@phillipproussier3723]

@@palapalak.8907 You had the same thing 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago.

[@snezdimi6695]

@@palapalak.8907 Periton made a difference for the cough

[@thomasdearing7718]

The government will not allow it to go away. Politicians are making millions of dollars on the pandemic.

[@JadeMoniqueEvelynElizabe-kn3dd]

So illogical and paranoid

[@thomasdearing7718]

@JadeMoniqueEvelynElizabe-kn3dd oh really? Look how many billions of dollars was made off of the so called pandemic. Do your own research. I lost my wife and daughter to this so called covid pandemic. They died of pneumonia. The hospital was following cdc guidelines and they did not get the treatment needed. They caught pneumonia every year for years. Because of Faucci and his guidelines I had to watch them die a slow death for 38 days. The hospital would not give them their medicine. My wife and daughter drowned on their own fluids. My wife and daughter was diabetic and retained water.

[@ronaldjohnestopace6444]

if we want to

[@bbl8101]

What about long covid?! I developed long covid from my second infection and have been housebound for 15 months. Reinfections can increase risk. I was a healthy 29 year old. People should still protect themselves

[@bbl8101]

Chronic illness is also very concerning, death can't be the only bar we measure by

[@cpt_kirkwood]

I’m also 29 and have long covid and had no physical health issues before this. I used to work out 5-6 times a week. Them saying it’s like the flu when this infects some people 3x/year is such garbage. Long covid is a huge threat and there are no official approved treatment. They’re letting it run wild and a LOT of people will become disabled and by the time they start caring it’ll be too late. It’s already too late for us. I still encourage people to wear high quality masks and clean their air with an air purifier. It’s really horrible what we’re experiencing.

[@Qq_27]

u guys are right..we family of 3 got covid back 2 back 3 times last year..Last time my 8yr old ended in ICU unresponsive 104.5 fever for 4 days.. now i knew accidently on a scan that my heart is enlarged due to some infection which was covid..i cant speak properly always out of breath and have small children to take care .. its true and scary..plz be safe and keep vulnerable ppl safe too.

[@markhartung]

Except the vaccine and boosters do absolutely nothing to shield you from contracting cv-19 or spreading it while greatly increasing your chances of developing myocarditis and pericarditis. How would you suggest people protect themselves?

[@markhartung]

@@Qq_27 You most likely contracted pericarditis from the vaccine or booster and you know it. Some kind of infection, yea right.....

[@janh461]

They are playing with mankind

[@star-wr1bs]

I would call it same as they do: experimenting

[@janh461]

@@star-wr1bs no experiments they already no what the effects are for their are many medical report about this topic

[@agapephilerostorge]

So blatant. They don't fear eternal punishment and think it's all a joke 🔥

[@mrs.s8855]

Take your vitamin D!

[@ianroberts5387]

a farse

[@EarthAngel888-v5s]

Well the media will most definitely be going away so boom no more lies 😊

[@davidchiasson6539]

Im wearing a mask 😷 im in the high risk category 👍

[@janh461]

Beast of the field

[@marahthonmeeh9625]

Question. Why do people have to be so concerned about this? We are dying from other things besides “Covid.” We can stay as healthy as we try, but that doesn’t mean we will stay here forever. We need to learn to live with this & move on from it.

[@cpt_kirkwood]

Because long covid is a risk after every infection. The flu and other infections don’t continuously reinfect people at this rate with such high rates of post-viral illness. I have long covid and I wasn’t able to walk in 2021. I don’t understand why people want to roll the dice with this. It’s the worst thing I’ve ever experienced by far. Also this has 4x the death rate of the flu. I’ve never had shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, psychological symptoms, and took me 2 months to recover from acute virus from the flu it’s also much more contagious. I’m already living the nightmare that people claim to not care about. Once you’re disabled no one will help you, trust me.

[@marahthonmeeh9625]

@@cpt_kirkwood Cancer is a disease that can be long. & we have never shut down for it nor do we have a cure..why? It’s something we’ve been dying from before Covid , not to forget everything else that we die from EVERYDAY so that’s considered “long.” I don’t think this so called virus is 4x deadlier than anything for the fact that there are still some unvaccinated out there. Are you vaccinated? And how can you be so certain that the vaccine didn’t cause you to become disabled? I say once you put “Covid” in your head it’s hard to get out. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@vanessawalker2656]

​@@cpt_kirkwoodNo such thing as long covid unless you were vaxxed.

[@greenbeans575]

It is wonderful that we have experts like Vanessa Walker to share her expert analysis. 😂😂😂

[@vanessawalker2656]

@greenbeans575 whatever it is, what it is. I'm no expert. I just know bullshit and propaganda when I see or hear it. That's all that I've seen with this covid debacle.

[@janh461]

Watch the symptoms many medical study to find dig deeper

[@wisdombeauty8496]

It will magically disappear when your in a financial bind when u have nothing left !,, Government wants it all including your soul

[@eileenspamer]

this pureblood uk granny is still alive and well claiming my pension

[@Pharaoh_The_Great]

It magically went away before but I think it will go away when people get back to work at the offices lol

[@traianliviudanciu8665]

At what tissue temperature did new variants of SARS COV2 better replicate(?), because at TWiV 659 at min29 virologist Christian Drosten suggest that SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature. If SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature may be must avoid to decrease mucoseal respiratory temperature even when oxigenoterapy are used Also to increase rapidly mucoseal respiratory temperature,,mask or bandana wearing,,are a choice.

[@janh461]

It is YOU

[@sallymoen7932]

I will bet people back in the 15th Century asked the same thing about the Black Plague, which kept coming back many times. I am fascinated by the idea that we all carry immunity to many diseases that used to kill people. Not everyone of us is immune, and not every one of us survives returning diseases: look at measles and how common it is to see outbreaks here in the U.S. from international travelers who then unknowingly spread it around via unvaccinated people, killing some, deafening others. I haven't recently heard of anyone being made blind from measles, so that's good. But people getting reduced lung capacity from Covid? Yeah that's common, not wide-spread but I've heard enough folks here talk about having that problem. I am glad I got my shots and booster. Would be happy to not get Covid in the future.

[@casualsuede]

I got my shots and two boosters. It doesn't make you immune from covid but more likely it takes it down to the level of a flu for many people like me.

[@star-wr1bs]

You are comparing black plague with c19 haha

[@markhartung]

Except the shot and boosters have been proven to do nothing to keep you from contracting or spreading CV-19 mam and increase greatly your chances of contracting myocarditis and pericarditis. Why are you glad of not researching the truth to keep yourself healthy and following the lambs to the slaughter house?

[@vanessawalker2656]

Why are you worried about covid if you got your shots, genius?

[@vanessawalker2656]

Why are you blaming unvaccinated people of spreading it when vaccinated people do the same. It's well known that your precious vax doesn't stop transmission or spread. Haven't you learned nothing from the last 3 years?

[@brandystillings3201]

Yep because we won’t comply this time and we will IGNORE IT

[@peterpopovic2040]

NO LIES NEVER EVER go away DON'T FORGET THAT

[@fifitheflowerpot]

WHO or EG5 variant are more serious.

[@darrenmanser2847]

Once we get to 7 billion variants can i name it?

[@Hollyucinogen]

I'll fight you over the right to name it. 😡

[@waiting4hispromise486]

No they won't. Look to Jesus. The timeline has been 2000 years shove he died and rose.. that's 2 days in God's time. Watchman river channel has a great video on all of the signs that Jesus is coming back. Robert breaker just got a video out cake revelation 12 sign reborn. Seems times prophecy is playing out right now. Jesus loves you .I pray many get this message and are saved❤ the only encouragement is found in knowing Jesus and His plan

[@janh461]

Ever listened to Hariri the frontman of WEF

[@wynbrown5985]

Yep. He's a complete evil satanist lunatic.

[@janh461]

Although they even believe themselves how ironic

[@janh461]

If you hear a person talking with eh eh eh eh eh you know they are lying

[@Hollyucinogen]

Me, a Canadian who regularly says "eh": 😔

[@fifitheflowerpot]

EG5. It's OK I've got EG7.

[@Hollyucinogen]

Well, I have EG10,000. My variant went Super Saiyan.

[@MasiwaZihwa]

They should have draining station everywhere and remove it by syringe. Once you cough it out it can help but then spitting can have infections in the streets better if it's contained

[@janh461]

Walking dead in the making but now it's not a television serie.

[@stratacat-jp8xg]

There's a Sickness at the Heart of Democracy & It's Called Oligarchy

[@wmjohns881]

You must be talking about Russian oligarchy 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@star-wr1bs]

Wrong

[@markhartung]

Except the U.S. is a constitutional republic, not a democracy dingleberry....

[@anjanrana8760]

God bless you all

[@lawrencebishton9071]

who aah just a little bit a little bit more gina g

[@debmance9836]

We get colds and flu annually and no one panics over them neither are they constantly in the news so my question is when will covid 19 be relegated that category? When can we be allowed to get on with our lives without the interference of covid ever again?

[@JadeMoniqueEvelynElizabe-kn3dd]

The 7000000 people who died and their families would disagree with you.

[@WhoeverItIs18]

​@@JadeMoniqueEvelynElizabe-kn3dd THIS ONE

[@nessuno4104]

SPARS 2025-2028 SARS-COV ETERNUM

[@lawrencebishton9071]

e g.5 like 5g

[@zarinagopalani6449]

I'm having a COVID 19 right now . How we find that the Same time or. ...

[@phillipproussier3723]

I want to have it too. Please give it to me.

[@janh461]

Do the math of 216000 looks like 600 x 60 x 6

[@AnthonyGifford]

Wow you know how to multiply! Did you use your calculator?

[@Shaolin91z]

Thanks Lord for your salvation Psalm 91. no vax. take Zinc

[@janh461]

Ever heard of EMF?

[@mattyb7733]

Just move on please its all fear fear FEAR!!!!! Noone cares anymore let people live there lives!

[@ayyappatas]

It is indeed in animals also, how can it go away?

[@markhartung]

It's a virus, it won't.....

[@janh461]

Time is at hand for there is little time left do not be deceived for your life depends on your faith

[@curie3938]

WHO is losing their spotlight, time to fire up some fear over the big C

[@emberhusky6878]

Seems like it's being perpetually altered and released. I mean the bio lab in California was quite the thing I bet there are a dozen labs that are similar. Look at the spread map , it smells funny.

[@phillipproussier3723]

It's not. It's only on the News and on paper. You are still asleep. 🤡🐑

[@janh461]

These are not human beings if you look there is something strange about them

[@sharonhildebrand995]

AI ????

[@kansaswolf865]

LIES 💩

[@Pharaoh_The_Great]

Metaverse phase 1

[@vassiliosca5715]

The authors of this video are Kallikantzaroi😁 They're still lieing🤣😂

[@Boo-pv4hn]

The issue is a lot of people are missed out from the booster because you don’t send the letters to half of those who are eligible, some of us got certain letters and not others and you need a copy of that letter to get them, you need to sort that out

[@lw1zfog]

😂🤣🤦🏽‍♂️🥴🤦🏽‍♂️🤡 good lord !

[@markhartung]

It's been proven the vaccine and the boosters do absolutely nothing to keep you from contracting or spreading CV-19 and greatly increase your chances of developing myocarditis and pericarditis. Wake up and do some research....

[@milosstamenkovic465]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JJs2121]

Yes put your tv and phone of trust me it will be gone

[@janh461]

What is your temple?

[@janh461]

5GE whoa backwards is their game

[@janh461]

Snake bit

[@janh461]

EMF sickness symptoms dig dig dig to find the answers

[@janh461]

This is now the scientist that tell you the TRUTH? Pffffffff

[@YoYoCoCo777]

It’s new name? BS-24-7

[@palapalak.8907]

Love it

[@TheKkpop1]

Fort Detrick will come up with new variants.

[@janh461]

Crown of the humans

[@douglaskeen873]

7,000,000 out of 7,000,000,000. What a weak virus.

[@lawrencebishton9071]

its false inprisonment

[@michaelsinclair2510]

Will Covid 19 ever go away? Yes - when social media like this stops prolongation.

[@JadeMoniqueEvelynElizabe-kn3dd]

Take a biology class and study these dangerous viruses. Viruses are smarter than some folks

[@janh461]

Your crown is your own temple

[@paolorossi5989]

The better question is: "Will the game of *RE-BRAND-ING* ever go away?" What do you think? 🤡 🐑🐏🐑

[@hughteslacure7977]

Do you really believe these thugs

[@janh461]

144000 to 216000 is their trick

[@janh461]

Triple helix is their goal

[@lw1zfog]

U.E.A. you say ? The self same U.E.A. that Andrew Ferguson’s fully tested, safe & effective climatic ‘hockey stick’ emanated from ? hmmmmm, ok then. 😂😂🥴🤦🏽‍♂️🤡

[@janh461]

Hackable by activated towers

[@lastChang]

The world must make sure Chinese 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping *won't get away* for starting the Wuhan pandemic.

[@star-wr1bs]

Are you sure that he is only one to be blamed for that?

[@wynbrown5985]

I did hear very early on that the man-made, gain of function virus originated in a lab in California and was transported to China.

[@Hollyucinogen]

​​@@star-wr1bsYeah, I'm just saying, but this seems to have been planned by almost everybody in power in most countries (some more than others). 😒 Edit: yes, I do know that I sound like a conspiracy theorist right now. 😩