If past is prologue and the history of the pandemic is a guide, the next target is the United States. The high death toll in Eastern Europe is partly due to low vaccination rates in the region. What we can’t control is the possibility of new, more transmissible variants taking root. First the Triad variant that drove infections last summer, then the regional variants — Alpha, Beta, and Gamma — that took root last winter and bled into spring. Today, I am not optimistic about our winter Covid season here in the United States.

Source: Forbes October 29, 2021 16:58 UTC