What will the new post-covid-19 normal look like in the United States?

(CNN English) – Countries around the world are starting to live a new normal life or at least learn to live with covid-19. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a document identifying the causes of the disease. New measures to control the epidemic.

What is it? In this episode Dr. Elmer Huerta explains it.

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Already in the third year of the big pandemic of 2019, and with the dominance of the Omicron variant on the planet, the control of the epidemic —at least in developed countries— is taking a new direction.

As we heard on the 14 February episode, many European countries are already easing control measures to varying degrees, and it is hoped that April in that region will be a relative return to pre-pandemic normalcy.

What the CDC says about the new normal post covid-19

The United States is no exception , and in a document published on February 25, “Covid-19 levels in society: a measure of the impact of covid-19 on health and healthcare systems”, CDC updates its new approach to infection control. Today we will see some practical details of these new measures.

The general and basic concept of understanding the new CDC rules is to examine the evolution of the epidemic in relation to the variables that cause infection.

In this sense, the epidemic caused by the original Wuhan wild variant is different from that caused by the Alpha variant, and different from that caused by the Delta, which in turn is very different from that caused by the current variant…