"World Health Experts Are Now Saying the Covid-19 ..." Topic

…Coronavirus Will Be With Us for Years Even With A Vaccine

"The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be a challenge for years to come even with a vaccine, according to pharmaceutical and public-health experts.

While a vaccine will provide some measure of protection to societies around the globe, the virus is likely to flare up from time to time and be constantly battled, much like the flu and other pathogens.

"We know this virus is not going away any time soon. It's established itself and is going to keep on transmitting wherever it's able to do so," Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist for the World Health Organization, at the "How Covid-19 Is Reshaping the Global Healthcare Ecosystem" event hosted by Bloomberg Prognosis. "We know we have to live with this."…"
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I don't understand why this is news. Our chance to completely contain it was back in January, place blame where you will. It's loose now, and it won't just go away. It took twenty years of universal vaccination to wipe out small pox. *If* we get a vaccine as good as the smallpox vaccine and *if* we get universal vaccination and *if* we keep it up for many years it will be gone. Otherwise it's here to stay like influenza, the cold, etc.

The biggest mistake after not reacting strongly enough soon enough was convincing ourselves this is a temporary problem. Our experience with the virus will change, but it's not going away in our lifetime.