Health
We’re thinking about Covid-19 the wrong way. It’s not a ‘wave’ – it’s a wildfire – The Guardian
Like a fire, the virus relentlessly seeks out its fuel, humans, and will keep spreading as long as it has access to that
We have no previous experience with a worldwide coronavirus pandemic, so when Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, began spreading, public health experts leaned on our experiences with influenza pandemics to inform their predictions. These pandemics are often described in terms of waves and troughs. We have now seen enough to replace the ocean analogy with a better one: wildfire.
Like a wildfire, the virus relentlessly seeks out fuel (human hosts), devastating some areas while sparing ot…
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