COVID-19 will likely be with us forever. Here's how we'll live with it.

[Throck]

https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2021/01/covid-19-will-likely-be-with-us-forever-heres-how-well-live-with-it

As COVID-19 continues to run its course, the likeliest long-term outcome is that the virus SARS-CoV-2 becomes endemic in large swaths of the world, constantly circulating among the human population but causing fewer cases of severe disease. Eventually—years or even decades in the future—COVID-19 could transition into a mild childhood illness, like the four endemic human coronaviruses that contribute to the common cold.


“My guess is, enough people will get it and enough people will get the vaccine to reduce person-to-person transmission,” says Paul Duprex, director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Vaccine Research. “There will be pockets of people who won’t take [the vaccines], there will be localized outbreaks, but it will become one of the ‘regular’ coronaviruses.”

I just want to go back to work. Savings are wiped out and I may have to tap into my 401K.

[NurseJackie]

1. I understand.

I just want to live. I want my loved ones to live.

[Demsrule86]

6. I have Covid...and have been coughing and miserable for over two weeks... so far I have been

OK, but you never know. It is a terrible disease. I started a new round of steroids, antibiotics (for the secondary infections Covid caused...like a raging sinus infection and bronchitis) and cough medicine...I have had a headache for two weeks also that never goes away.

[NurseJackie]

9. Hang in there!

Sorry to hear what you're going through.

[Jeebo]

2. I read somewhere that the 1918 flu went away because ...

... it mutated after a couple of years to something that was much less dangerous. Maybe we'll get lucky like that?

-- Ron

[Demsrule86]

7. The 1918 flu went away partly because it was too lethal. It killed its victims quickly

and was not as contagious as Covid19. My Grandmother told me stories of getting on the L in Maywood and some being dead by the end of the ride.

[brush]

3. We just get shots for it every year if necessary. Just like with the flu now.

It's manageable once we get everyone, or mostly everyone who wants it, vaccinate. Of course there will always be non-vaxxers with their illogical fears.

[Demsrule86]

4. That won't work because the virus keeps changing which is why we need to all have a MRNA

vaccine and the faster we do it the less variants.

[mitch96]

5. The 1918 flu pandemic is the only thing we can equate this flu with.. Yes it will go away at

some point and like you said it will prolly mutate to something less deadly. Flu shots and masks, flu shots and mask.. The Pneumonic plague, bubonic plague(cousin), typhoid, Pertussis. Zika virus. West Nile virus Ebola. Chikungunya virus all want to get us.. Be on your guard. People, places and things will transmit these things.. watch out..
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[Demsrule86]

8. Covid is more like a common cold than the 1918 flu...the cold has never gone away.