I've been wondering, due to the lack of children at school (some estimates put it at circa 5% of normal values), and the lack of social interaction from everyone (i.e. no children's parties, clubs, sorts, etc.), what is the likely impact on other viruses?
For instance, by now we must be getting close to things like Chicken Pox having nearly no new cases (clearly there's going to be some but there can't be that many, and in a week or two there's going to be fewer still).
As such could we see fairly few cases until international travel starts to become more normal again, or could the number of countries with lockdowns mean that even that may not result in the number of cars rising back to previous levels?
If this is the case, could we see a widening of the vaccination program so as to result in the near removal of viruses like this from the population?
Likewise with the better understanding of how we should wash our hands, could we see Flu and Colds becoming much less common? Again especially if we are international travel on a semi lockdown, or at least fairly uncommon, for 18 months to two years.
Which given that places like China are stating that most of their new cases are from international travel and so encouraging 14 day self isolation for those coming into their country will put a lot of people off travel. Likewise how's the US ban on international travel going? Given that there's several States with fairly low levels of Covid-19 I wouldn't image that they'll be overly keen to allow people from known hotspots to come into the USA just yet, or even for a good few months.
For instance, by now we must be getting close to things like Chicken Pox having nearly no new cases (clearly there's going to be some but there can't be that many, and in a week or two there's going to be fewer still).
As such could we see fairly few cases until international travel starts to become more normal again, or could the number of countries with lockdowns mean that even that may not result in the number of cars rising back to previous levels?
If this is the case, could we see a widening of the vaccination program so as to result in the near removal of viruses like this from the population?
Likewise with the better understanding of how we should wash our hands, could we see Flu and Colds becoming much less common? Again especially if we are international travel on a semi lockdown, or at least fairly uncommon, for 18 months to two years.
Which given that places like China are stating that most of their new cases are from international travel and so encouraging 14 day self isolation for those coming into their country will put a lot of people off travel. Likewise how's the US ban on international travel going? Given that there's several States with fairly low levels of Covid-19 I wouldn't image that they'll be overly keen to allow people from known hotspots to come into the USA just yet, or even for a good few months.