From the Southwest Florida Healthcare Coalition:
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists in the new year, it's essential to reflect on and acknowledge the challenges, successes, and journey ahead. In 2022, with the help of vaccines, booster shots, and treatments, COVID-19 illness was less severe and less deadly compared to 2020 and 2021. Yet, while the most acute threat of COVID has decreased in some places, it continues to impact our everyday life. Experts predict that 2023 will bring COVID's total impact on global health into sharp focus.
"Gaps in COVID testing and vaccination rates are continuing to create the perfect conditions for a new variant of concern to emerge that could cause significant mortality,"- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Visit local "Test to Treat" locations where you can get both COVID-19 testing and treatment. If a person tests positive at a different location or with an at-home test (learn how to order four free at-home tests for your household at covid.gov), they can also go to these Test-to-Treat locations to receive a prescription from a qualified healthcare provider and treatment on the spot if eligible (learn more here).
COVID-19 will still be with us in 2023, but what does that mean in terms of hospitalizations, deaths, and other impacts?
PS…here are a few recent coronavirus news articles that may interest you.
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