RIGHT SPEAK: What Will Happen to COVID-19 in 2025? Experts Explain; Mystery Disease Outbreak Leaves Hospitals Overwhelmed in China: 'Long lines for cremation', and other C-Virus related stories

What Will Happen to COVID-19 in 2025? Experts Explain:

The COVID-19 pandemic was five years ago but the virus continues to circulate among global populations—could that change in 2025? The experts think not.

In fact, three experts told Newsweek that 2025 will look much the same as 2024 in terms of COVID-19 risk.

Molecular virologist Professor Jonathan Ball, Deputy Vice Chancellor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, said: "I think next year will play out similar to last: outbreaks associated with the emergence of new variants and/or waning population immunity."

Dr. Robert H. Hopkins Jr., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, said: "Improvement in vaccine uptake, vaccine access and availability., ongoing evolution of COVID-19 variants and the willingness of our society to learn—and adhere to—the lessons of the pandemic will all impact the trajectory of COVID-19 in 2025.

"Unless we see significant changes in behavior, I expect 2025 to look very much like 2024."

And infectious disease epidemiologist Professor Christophe Fraser, at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, echoed this sentiment, saying: "I think 2025 will look a lot like 2024.

"We should expect the virus to continue circulating at high levels, one or two new variants to appear, likely continuing to be descendants of Omicron and we expect vaccine and infection-derived immunity to be protecting most people from the worst effects of this virus."

That's not to say that something could not happen to change the threat level of COVID-19 to public health—but the experts said this is unlikely. --->READ MORE HERE

Mystery disease outbreak leaves hospitals overwhelmed in China: 'Long lines for cremation':

Funerals are reportedly being performed en-masse as deaths mount from the mystery condition five years after the first cases of Covid were detected.

Funerals are reportedly being performed en-masse as deaths mount from the mystery condition five years after the first cases of Covid were detected.

The world is holding its breath as unconfirmed reports suggest a mystery disease is ravaging China leading to overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums.

China has long been identified as the source of the Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus which went on to spark a global pandemic after the first human patients were discovered in the city of Wuhan in November 2019.

Around the world over seven million people died from Covid and in the UK the latest estimates are 208,000 people lost their lives to the disease.

Now unconfirmed local media reports from China are suggesting a new bug, thought to be connected to the human metapneumovirus (HMPV), is now causing severe and even deadly results.

Usually HMPV is similar to a mild cold, but according to the Mail Online lines of sick children and adults are now overwhelming the country's healthcare system and deaths have been reported.

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention suggests flu could be behind the soaring admissions and cases, similar to a sharp rise in cases in the UK.

But according to Aboluowang News, a US-based news provider covering China, a farmer from Hunan Province said people were dying from the outbreak.

Mr Peng told the news site: "A lot of people have caught colds, and most of them have [illness],' he said in quotes translated to English. About seven or eight people died this week in this area. Some were in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 40s." --->READ MORE HERE