Will the coronavirus end soon? According to experts, it could actually get worse

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The coronavirus pandemic's US death toll is nearly 155,000 people, greater than the entire European Union combined and orders of magnitude higher than the COVID-19 death toll in most countries around the world. Hotspot states like California and Florida are setting records, and Melbourne, Australia, is facing another lockdown. So what happens when flu season arrives? Speaking to Congress on July 31, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he remains "cautiously optimistic" that the US will have a safe and effective vaccine by the start of 2021.

Earlier in July, Fauci said the US is still "knee deep" in the first wave because confirmed case numbers haven't dropped far enough for long enough to squash the initial outbreak.

But there could be an even bigger threat looming. "The real risk is that we're going to have two circulating respiratory pathogens at the same time," Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned when he spoke to Time Magazine regarding the upcoming flu season.

We take a look at what doctors and scientists have to say about a second wave of the coronavirus, including how it might relate to the current spike in new cases as well as what experts predict for the fall and winter. Please note: This story provides an overview of the current discussion and is updated frequently in light of new and changing information provided by health officials, global leaders and the scientific community. It isn't intended as a medical reference.

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. It will get worse until we completely change the federal government.

That is the reality.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. There has always been talk of the second wave-- made even more probable because...

of our stupidity dealing with the first wave.

[Baked Potato]

3. Republicans just don't do help well.

Too much business minded competition resulting in hate of fellow man (the competition).

[tanyev]

4. Seems like everything we're doing to avoid Covid would also help avoid the flu.

Now if the flu virus and the coronavirus merge together in some unholy union, then we could be screwed.

[Blue_true]

6. The Novel Swine Flu that President Obama faced a couple of months into his

first term was what you just mentioned. Two pathogens, in this case, swine flu pathogens gave up a piece of their genetic material to create a third pathogen that all treatments of record could not stop, so President Obama had to start at point zero, with nothing. But unlike Trump, President Obama followers science and lead a worldwide, organized attack on the Novel H1N1 virus that he faced. If that had been Trump, we likely would be talking about tens of thousands of dead people instead of 13,000 (roughly a mild flu season, with a known flu pathogen).

[MFM008]

5. make sure you get a flu shot

ASAP.
It cant hurt.

[jeffreyi]

7. Geeze, of course it's going to get worse!

Without a strict lockdown, how will it not get worse?