Endemic doesn’t mean we drop our guard, surrender to the virus or downgrade the threat the virus poses to individuals and the community.
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None of our authors can see the future, but many do have expertise that offers insights about what’s reasonable to expect.
If mandatory vaccination means exclusion from certain activities in life, sometimes that’s just the price of sticking to one’s convictions.
We should move rapidly to reduce fear, improve vaccination rates, improve treatments and reduce complications as we do with other diseases we can’t eliminate or fully protect against.
A number of other human coronaviruses just cause the common cold, and it’s possible SARS-CoV-2 may one day be the same.
COVID-19 appears to spread in clusters, and that could keep it coming back even if case numbers are brought down.
As ready as you are to be done with COVID-19, it’s not going anywhere soon. A historian of disease describes how once a pathogen emerges, it’s usually here to stay.
Many of these new diseases cross over, jumping from wild animals to people.
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Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Merced
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Professional Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology and Immunology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Scientific Officer in Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds
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Assistant Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan
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Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, Health Policy, Victoria University
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Professor of Global and Migrant Health, University of Southern Denmark