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Experts Predicted COVID-19 Would Come in Waves. Now They Say It’s a ‘Forest Fire’ – ScienceAlert
In April, US experts suggested there might be a second peak of coronavirus infections in the fall. But new data suggests it’s not seasonal.
US experts scrambled in the spring to predict what the future of the pandemic might look like. Many predicted that the coronavirus — like the seasonal flu — would retreat in the summer before roaring back in a second, more severe wave come fall.
But epidemiologists are now eschewing that idea.
“There’s no evidence there’s going to be a decrease in cases, a trough,” epidemiologist Michael Osterholm told Business Insider. “It’s just going to keep burning hot, kind of like a forest fire looking …
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