Global Scans · Coronavirus · Weekly Summary

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Future potential spread of the coronavirus is impacting world trade and threatens a global economic recession and inflection point. For the first time, Illness is now a major driving force. We first reported this virus way back in 2010 and regularly since July 2015 as a predictable surprise: a known unknown to most. It is not a Black Swan; it was foreseen! Forewarned is forearmed and forearmed is protection against unpleasant possibilities and this inflection point will most likely change everyone's future profoundly.

Here are some actions you could take offered by and our friends at WavePoint and BCG and McKinsey.

Companies are asking people to work from home (we have always worked from our homes since 2003). We think the latter will become a long-term and rapidly growing trend as people reduce traveling time, buy more online, and increasingly recognize the benefits to their health of staying home. More emerging, potential behavioral trends here. Begin regularly evaluating predictable surprises, be prepared and act in time, while others lose their shirt through inattention to the future.

• [New] CDC recommends a 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine for people ages 6 months and older based on individual-based decision-making. covid
• [New] A US-wide trial will test whether tirzepatide, the active ingredient in Zepbound, may be an effective treatment for people with long Covid. Wired
• [New] More than three-quarters of American adults did not get a covid shot last season, a figure that health care experts warn could rise in 2025 amid new U.S. government recommendations. Conexiant
• [New] People beginning to shop for 2026's plans on the ACA marketplaces are experiencing sticker shock due to the expiration of more generous premium tax credits that were expanded during the covid pandemic. KFF Health News
• [New] Some COVID-19-era subsidies under individual Affordable Care Act plans are due to lapse in 2026, which would lead patients to accelerate elective procedures, preventive care visits and diagnostic services while their insurance is still affordable. Yahoo Finance
• [New] COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of developing long COVID in adolescents. NYU Langone News
• [New] The CDC will no longer recommend routine COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children. AJMC
• Within a few weeks, holiday events and travel will ignite respiratory season in the U.S., bringing with it another surge of COVID infections. Medium
• NIH announced it will support a four-year follow-up study on the potential long-term effects of COVID-19 on women infected with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• NIH announced research funding of $20 million to encourage ways to identify children at high risk for developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome, also referred to as MIS-C, thought to be a severe complication of COVID-19 in which different body parts become inflamed. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Federal COVID-19 related relief is expected to fall by $3.02 billion in FY 2025. Office of the New York City Comptroller Brad Lander
• Age is the strongest risk factor for severe COVID outcomes, with the risk of death increasing sharply with age. Managed Healthcare Executive
• U.S. veterans receiving the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine were linked to lower risks of emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths over six months of follow-up. Managed Healthcare Executive
• Looking ahead to 2026, the post-COVID cornucopia of federal money is running dry, and states are starting to face budget shortfalls. Casino Reports

Last updated: 23 November 2025