How will COVID end? Why the COVID pandemic might have 3 endings – Deseret News

Its now been two years since the United States shut down due to the rising amount of COVID-19 cases across the country. And experts are still unsure how the pandemic will come to a close.

Driving the news: Pandemics dont all end the same. Each pandemic throughout history has a different endgame, mostly due to the science and medication available at the time.

What they said: Erica Charters of the University of Oxford, who studies pandemic history, told The Associated Press that pandemics dont end quickly.

Pandemics often have three types of endings:

State of play: The World Health Organizationpreviously cautioned the world against assuming the COVID-19 pandemic is over since there are still cases spiking across the world.

What to expect: Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said at the beginning of February that the pandemic may soon end and normality will return in the spring, as I wrote for the Deseret News.

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