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The Second Wave

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The Second Wave 

By Farrah Kannan 

    As I head into my freshman year at Suffolk I wonder if COVID-19 will come back stronger in a second wave, causing the school year to be out of the ordinary. I started to be convinced that this might be the case when I read that Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) stated,  “next winter [could] actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through.” (Washington Post)

        I think COVID-19 will come back during flu season making it harder than ever to determine whether someone has the coronavirus, the influenza virus, or the common cold. “An increase in COVID-19 cases in the fall could be troublesome because seasonal flu is likely to be accelerating at the same time. If the coronavirus surges in the fall and the flu season is bad, the combination could put hospitals and patients at risk.” (hopkinsmedicine.org.) This will not be a good situation, people having the flu and the virus will all be admitting themselves into the hospital causing a whirlpool of germ spreading and lack of space in hospitals making it much more worse in the fall than the first wave in March. This will result in schools, stores, and companies having to close down again. 

      Experts say COVID-19 is could be similar to the 1918 influenza, “There were at least three distinct waves of influenza in 1918 and 1919, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.” (khn.org) Researchers say the pandemics are similar because they both attack the respiratory system. Khn.org also states, “The first wave began in March 1918 and eased by the summer. The second wave came in the fall, followed by a third wave during the winter and spring of 1919.” So far COVID-19 is on the same track as the 1918 and 1919 influenza. We need to take all the steps like wearing a mask and sanitizing to make sure history does not repeat itself and affect any more people. If things stay on track we just may be able to go back to a normal school year next year. 

    

Citing – 

Washington Post 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/21/coronavirus-secondwave-cdcdirector/%3foutputType=amp

Hopkins Medicine 

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/first-and-second-waves-of-coronavirus?amp=true  

Khn.org

https://khn.org/news/fact-check-is-a-second-wave-of-coronavirus-coming/

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