Annandale, VA; August 16, 2022
Are Vaccines Really Important, Do We Really Need Them?
At CARE-ID they’re really, really important. It’s what we work on studying nearly every day. However, this is also an important question that every responsible, self-sufficient adult may want to prepare themselves to answer.
“Our viral infections experiences since March of 2020 have for nearly everyone been simply, “overwhelming”. SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19) hit us out of nowhere and frightened many all the way back to the experiences of the 1918 “Spanish Flu” pandemic. Most didn’t know how bad 1918 to 1920 was but learned rather quickly . Less apocalyptic viruses preceded COVID such as: SARS, Zika, and Chikungunya outbreaks, but weren’t widespread. Nevertheless, these were early warnings that the expanse of infectious diseases has grown to be more challenging than ever before. Now another new warning has emerged in monkeypox. And “wait for it”, another new one was just announced by researchers, the novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) . One might ask is there an end in sight or is this a “new normal”? And can we find our way out of this safely?
- Read more on this important topic
- 1 influenza pandemic of 1918–19, Britannica, July 14, 2022, https://www.britannica.com/science/influenza
- 2 Newly-discovered Langya virus infected 35 people in China, LiveScience, August 10, 2022, https://www.livescience.com/china-detects-new-langyu-virus