Jerusalem Post: Variants vs. vaccines - is the COVID-19 race ever going to end? - analysis
How come, if there are such good vaccines, has the pandemic not ended?
The bad news is that COVID-19 is here to stay. The good news is that this will eventually be stabilized – it just has not happened yet. Pandemics do not have a start or an end date. “
We have this expectation that COVID-19 had a start: It started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. And we have this expectation that it is going to end,” said Dr. Daniel Landsberger, chief physician for Maccabi Health Services.
“We want a date for it to end.” But if we look over hundreds of years, pandemics are processes. The Bubonic Plague of the 16th century lasted a few hundred years and there are still random but rare outbreaks today – mostly in Third-World countries like Africa, India and Peru.
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WNU Editor: A depressing read. Bottom line. Covid-19 and its variants will be with us for a long time. At least the vaccines appear to be working .... Vaccines show declining effectiveness against infection overall but strong protection against hospitalization amid delta variant (Washington Post).
