Forbes July 9, 2024
You could say that the U.S. is more than flirting with yet another Covid-19 surge. Chances are that a surge has already been occurring for at least a month since early June. And the “FLiRT” variants of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been front-and-center of this surge.
Now, the U.S. still doesn’t have a comprehensive surveillance system that can catch surges before they happen or soon after they start happening even though it’s been over four-and-a-half years since the the SARS-CoV-2 first surged in the U.S. Plus, nowadays, you don’t see the public health alerts about Covid-19 surges that you saw during the first three years of the pandemic. So, these days if you want to...