COVID: what should be happening next, or rather now.

From this link:

https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2021.1604361/full .

1 Address the Uncontrolled Spread of Infections

2 Recognise the Increasing Range of Clinical Presentations

3 Recognise and Address the Widening Range of Syndromes and Clinical Consequences of “Long COVID”, “Persistent COVID” and COVID Related Medical Conditions

4 Rethink Inadequate Testing Tools and Strategies and Improve Public Understanding of the Limits of Tests

5 Continue to Implement Mass Vaccination and Consistent Equitable Coverage of Their Population

6 Address Unmet Health Care Needs

7 Plan for Winter

8 Appreciate Their Global Responsibility to all Other Nations of the World

9 Earn the Trust of Your People, Govern by Informed Consent and Support Communities and Individuals

Point #7 says: "In addition to planning for COVID-19, countries must plan for a major flu outbreak this year. Flu was greatly suppressed during 2020, through high flu vaccination rates, social distancing and mask wearing. These will have impacted on transmission of any respiratory viruses, and are still needed in 2021 [9].

Enhanced Influenza, pneumococcal vaccine programmes and vitamin D supplementation also need to be implemented [2].

Countries should prepare for a cold winter [2], and for extreme and unpredictable weather events, like those happening with flash floods in Europe and with the extreme heat dome over the North Western Pacific region [10].

Efforts to stimulate economies by reducing societal COVID-19 restrictions will fail if the virus is not suppressed to very low levels [11]. Countries must protect the health and the social welfare of all their people [2, 3]. Countries must protect their children’s future; keeping schools open should be the priority [12, 13]."