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Changing Times
Looking
Ahead in
2022
Changing times lie ahead of us
It is impossible to be a Nostradamus when it comes to the future but it
is worth looking at what lies ahead in 2022 and be prepared for what to
expect, writes Prabhakar Mundkur
Pandemic life might get better but the virus is here
to stay in many ways. That might mean
vaccinations every year for a long time.
Health
India, unlike the developed countries, has
never attached too much importance to
public health. The pandemic might well
Omicron is the ongoing variant but the virus’s job is to
keep surviving have changed that. India spends only 1.3%
There is little doubt that the pandemic is of its GDP on public health while the US
far from over. While many proclaim that spent 18% of its GDP on public health in
the Omicron variant is the last dying gasps 2020. While the optimists are always trying
of a virus that took the world by storm, it is to assure us that we are close to being a
impossible to predict what the virus might developed country, that yawning gap tells
do next. It is our job to try and eliminate the us how far we might be from the health
virus from the world. It is the virus’s job to objectives of a developed country. But our
keep on surviving. And with every step we current emphasis on public health is likely
take to pulverise it, it seems to have a mind to change slowly.
of its own, and it keeps changing its colour
and shape like a chameleon in its effort to Health Passports
fight back humanity. My prediction is that The pandemic may have started it, but I
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