Is There a Path To A Covid-19 Endgame?

Washington Post: For scientists, path to covid endgame remains uncertain

It's basically over already. It will end this October. Or maybe it won't be over till next spring, or late next year, or two or three years down the road.

From the most respected epidemiologists to public health experts who have navigated past disease panics, from polemicists to political partisans, there are no definitive answers to the central question in American life: As a Drudge Report headline put it recently, "is it ever going to end?"

With children returning to classrooms, in many cases for the first time in 18 months, and as the highly contagious delta variant and spotty vaccination uptake send case numbers and deaths shooting upward, many Americans wonder what exactly has to happen before life can return to something that looks and feels like 2019.

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WNU Editor: I have resigned myself that this pandemic will be with us into 2022. And if the new variants become immune to the current vaccines, this will be with us into 2023 and beyond.