{"id":10691,"date":"2024-02-12T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/?p=10691"},"modified":"2024-02-13T18:41:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:11:32","slug":"infectious-diseases-like-covid-19-the-flu-and-rsv-arent-going-anywhere-they-are-here-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/press-release\/infectious-diseases-like-covid-19-the-flu-and-rsv-arent-going-anywhere-they-are-here-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Infectious Diseases Like COVID-19, the\u00a0 Flu, and RSV Aren\u2019t Going Anywhere.\u00a0 They Are Here to Stay\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>CONTACT:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>John Norris\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>617-680-3127\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>John.Norris@Safely2Prosperity.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safely2prosperity.com\">https:\/\/www.safely2prosperity.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/John-Norris.png\" alt=\"John Norris\" class=\"wp-image-10645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/John-Norris.png 150w, https:\/\/businesstalkmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/John-Norris-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>February 12, 2024 \u2013 (BOSTON)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a former FDA COO and Harvard faculty\u00a0member, and having served in the US\u00a0military during the Vietnam War, I believe I\u00a0must help prepare the US and our allied\u00a0nations\u2014and their critical enterprises\u2014\u00a0worldwide\u2014to better survive the next\u00a0pandemic, endemic, or local outbreak of a\u00a0dangerous pathogen, whether it is nature-made or human-manufactured.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is much confusion among the public and senior executives at&nbsp; government agencies and businesses, both for-profit and not-for-profit,&nbsp; about the continuing significant risks from infectious disease spread&nbsp; within their places of business and their employees\u2019 homes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the interest of the press and their viewers and readers was&nbsp; saturated by their over two-year almost daily coverage of the COVID-19&nbsp; Pandemic, they have stopped covering the continuing significant risks of&nbsp; pathogens, including COVID-19, the flu, and RSV. These and other&nbsp; deadly diseases aren\u2019t going anywhere. They are here to stay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tail end of the COVID-19 Pandemic still has a punch in terms of&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>deaths and significant other harms, such as mental, psychological, and&nbsp; financial damage\u2014and the overflowing of our hospitals and clinics. The&nbsp; pandemic did not end, as declared on May 11, 2023. Like many political&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>declarations throughout history, that declaration was, at best, wishful&nbsp; thinking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, other significant yet less active infectious diseases, such as&nbsp; Tuberculosis, HIV\/AIDS, and Malaria, are still very active in the US, at&nbsp; least seasonally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of particular concern right now in terms of spread is what the CDC calls&nbsp; the \u201cTriple-Demic.\u201d This involves all three earlier-mentioned diseases:&nbsp; COVID-19, the Flu, and RSV. Catching one of them is of significant&nbsp; concern. Catching all three at the same time could readily be deadly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make matters worse, this continuing and growing exposure to all&nbsp; these infectious diseases and others is happening when many&nbsp; businesses have begun requiring their employees to return to their&nbsp; workspaces at least four days a week, and some employers are pushing&nbsp; them to do so five days a week. For these employees and their&nbsp; employers, the \u201chybrid work model\u201d used in recent years is dead or all&nbsp; but dead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, those who refuse to comply or ignore the corporate rules on this&nbsp; critical issue are increasingly being fired or at least passed over for&nbsp; bonuses or promotions. And many businesses have installed attendance&nbsp; monitoring, which would have been considered an intolerable insult in&nbsp; the past. So, most employees are complying with the new rules.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Infectious disease spread is one of the greatest dangers facing&nbsp; Americans and all people living worldwide. But few Americans and their&nbsp; bosses realize this. We all tend to ignore it until a pandemic-sized attack&nbsp; kills millions of \u201cOur\u201d people. It\u2019s called \u201ctribalism\u201d\u2014a powerful force of&nbsp; nature inbred in us all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even then, we have heavily discounted the value of the deaths of&nbsp; nearly 1 million elderly Americans who were casualties in the war against&nbsp; COVID-19. You will see no monuments to them in Washington, DC, or&nbsp; town halls across the land. They have been long forgotten and are gone&nbsp; without a single trace. Not even their name lightly scratched on a tablet&nbsp; remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We forget that infectious diseases have killed hundreds of times more&nbsp; people throughout history than atomic or chemical weapons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated 39,000 people died in the nuclear attack on Nagasaki.&nbsp; 66,000 in Hiroshima. Or roughly 110,000. That\u2019s it for nuclear weapons.&nbsp; No Americans were killed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chemical weapons used in the American Civil War killed an estimated&nbsp; 220,000 American soldiers. (And infectious diseases possibly killed twice&nbsp; that number, or some 440,000 more.) In WWI, they killed an estimated&nbsp; 53,000 Americans. (And infectious diseases possibly killed some 45,000&nbsp; more.) In WWII, 220,000. (And infectious diseases, perhaps some&nbsp; 180,000 more.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Korean War, 36,000. (And infectious diseases possibly killed many&nbsp; more.) In the Vietnam War, 58,000. (And infectious diseases possibly&nbsp; killed many more.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. So, thus far, it has not been atomic weapons or chemical&nbsp; weapons that have taken an astronomical toll on American lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, it has been infectious disease spread, either nature-made or&nbsp; human-manufactured, that has so devastated Americans\u2014and most&nbsp; other people around the world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, we must spend more of our national security and defense&nbsp; funding on risk-managing infectious disease spread. Instead, we spend&nbsp; almost all those funds on atomic and chemical offensive, deterrent, and&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>defensive weapons. How can this make sense? When and how will it&nbsp; end?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the threat of death and destruction from the massive and&nbsp; widespread use of atomic weapons is high if they are ever used again.&nbsp; But they have not been used since WWII. And because they are&nbsp; uncontrollable mass destruction weapons and expose users to equal or&nbsp; more significant retaliation due to their high and quick traceability as to&nbsp; source, they might never be used again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the bubonic plague (the \u201cBlack Death\u201d) in the Middle Ages that&nbsp; killed roughly 50 million people, estimated to be half the people in the&nbsp; world at that time. And in recent years, infectious diseases have often&nbsp; been the third most likely cause of death worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus far, COVID-19 has killed 1.2 million Americans. And roughly 7&nbsp; million worldwide. Most of them were elderly. The so-called&nbsp; \u201cdisposables.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1918 Flu Pandemic, called \u201cthe mother of all pandemics,\u201d killed an&nbsp; estimated 675,000 Americans and roughly 50 million worldwide. It circled&nbsp; the globe in less than four months. Most of the victims were 18-year-old&nbsp; kids to 43-year-old middle-aged adults. Unlike the older adults killed by&nbsp; COVID-19, they were severely and repeatedly missed by their families&nbsp; and their communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)&nbsp; announced a week ago at the Davos meeting in Switzerland that a&nbsp; 50,000,000-death-scale pandemic is headed our way, and it is \u201c<strong>not if,&nbsp; but when<\/strong>\u201d it will arrive. We agree.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bottom line is that infectious diseases have always been a force to&nbsp; reckon with. And with our \u201cever-shrinking\u201d world, their threat to&nbsp; humankind is ever-increasing and more significant than any other risk. It&nbsp; is time we pay attention to this and act accordingly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My teammates and I have invented and developed a significant digital&nbsp; tool that provides part of the solution. It is the best in the world. But&nbsp; everyone must now kick in. You can text me at 617-680-3127 to learn&nbsp; more\u2014and explore how S2P\u2019s <strong>VirusVigilant <\/strong>machine learning (and&nbsp; soon partially AI) driven digital platform can help protect your enterprise&nbsp; and its employees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The URL for the Full Article on the WHO announcement, really a&nbsp; warning, is https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/alert-world-health organization-director-general-has-norris-jd-mba-kzrqe.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2024 Safely2Prosperity LLC and Dr. John Norris. 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