Two recent events show the holes remaining in our pandemic preparedness plans
We tend to have short memories, especially when it comes to prevention of calamities, and the pandemic is no different. The newly discovered omicron variant presents us another Covid-19 hurdle to cross. There will be more. If we wait to close borders and shut down flights after something new is identified, that’s like pulling up the drawbridge after the contagion has already entered the castle walls – too late to prevent further spread. .
a case of monkeypox in a U.S. citizen returning from Nigeria. Although the reports are skimpy on details, making it difficult to know the patient’s stage of infection at the time of travel, it prompted health officials to hunt down the fellow passengers to put them under surveillance for possible exposure. This was the second imported case this year .occurs in parts of Africa and spreads to humans from animals, and it can also spread person-to-person.
It would be impossible to look at someone and discern whether they were infected with the omicron Covid variant, the common cold, or any other respiratory virus, but a fifth grader could pick someone suffering from monkeypox out of a crowd. Somehow the individual made it past customs, immigration, and airline authorities.
from eight countries in Africa, anyone in public health could have told you omicron was likely already circulating within U.S. borders.The second event was reported during the same week in November 2021. Vials labeled “smallpox” were discovered in a Merck vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania. The FBI swooped in, and the CDC tested the vial’s contents and determined that it actually contained a different virus, vaccinia, which is used for vaccinatingsmallpox.
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