How the #Covid pandemic ends: The truth of the matter is that pandemics always end. And to date #vaccines have never played a significant role in ending them........ 1/statnews.com/2021/05/19/how…
......that doesn’t mean #vaccines aren’t playing a critical role this time. Far fewer people will die from #Covid19 because of them 2/
Experience from the last 4 pandemics would suggest that viruses morph from pandemic pathogens to endemic sources of disease within a year & a half or two of emerging. But all of those pandemics were flu pandemics. A different pathogen could mean we’ll see a different pattern 3/
#SARSCoV2 will continue hurling #variants at us — especially once it comes under pressure to evolve when large swathes of people are vaccinated 4/
Humans & viruses reached an immunological détente. Instead of causing tsunamis of devastating illness, over time the viruses came to trigger small surges of milder illness. Pandemic flu became seasonal flu 5/
If the pattern holds, and it is expected to, #SARSCoV2 will at some point join a handful of human #coronaviruses that cause colds, mainly in the winter, when conditions favor their transmission 6/
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