How do pandemics usually end? And how will this one finish?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I don't think that any two ever end the same way. In the past, when people did not perhaps keep such good records, many like Black Death, Spanish Flu and Leprosy, just disappeared quietly when nobody was paying attention any more. But of course some never do, seasonal flu has been with us now for thousands of years, many STDs still linger on, others like measles are come back kings which pop up here and there at random, while others like polio are still there but only in small pockets where religious leaders oppose vaccination.
Fernapple
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Sep 10, 2020
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No one really knows, since this isn't a flu. It's like nothing we've ever dealt with before. If a workable vaccine is found, well run countries will achieve herd immunity, but even then they can't let their guard down. Trump has apparently decided to let it runs its course in the US, so it's not going to end anytime soon, and will cause staggering health and economic costs.
Druvius
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Sep 9, 2020
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Unfortunately, all the fear of a vaccine is going to make that option even more difficult to achieve. If natural immunity only lasts months, it is impossible to achieve herd immunity without a vaccine, but you need 70-90% of a population immune for herd immunity to be effective. Seems to me it's going to be a long road for the US. Other countries that embrace a vaccine will fare far better than we.
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