'Vaccination is the way to solve this problem, not masks and isolation,' said Daniel Havlichek, an infectious disease specialist at Michigan State University.
that he believed it would be"very, very difficult" to shut down given the"mood of the country."
The same thoughts were echoed by William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Schaffner toldthat reinstituting protocols"would be extremely difficult. People would be very skeptical, very reluctant, and quite vocal about it."
"I anticipate realistically that we are going to have a new normal summer, there may well be a lot of Omicron and BA.2 variant spreading, but perhaps causing an awful lot of mild illness," Schaffner said.that goes to public health, which could play a vital role should the U.S. see another surge in the future.."We all have been surprised at what COVID has done in the past, and I don't think our confidence is complete.
The U.S. could face significant hurdles should a COVID-19 surge take place again, some experts say. In this photo, people check-in for their COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up clinic offering vaccines and booster shots in Rosemead, California on November 29, 2021.