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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Covid Endgame


The Coronavirus Is Here Forever. This Is How We Live With It.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/how-we-live-coronavirus-forever/619783/
Sarah Zhang notes:
That future may be hard to imagine with intensive-care units filling up yet again during this Delta surge. But the pandemic will end. One way or another, it will end. The current spikes in cases and deaths are the result of a novel coronavirus meeting naive immune systems. When enough people have gained some immunity through either vaccination or infection—preferably vaccination—the coronavirus will transition to what epidemiologists call “endemic.” It won’t be eliminated, but it won’t upend our lives anymore.

HOW THE PANDEMIC NOW ENDS
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/delta-has-changed-pandemic-endgame/619726/
Ed Yong:
“Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now”.