when we will the pandemic end? – Pandemic Prevention Zone

Question: when we will the pandemic end?
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Asked by bigc15 on 11 Jan 2022. This question was also asked by MalaikaN.
- Shona Moore answered on 11 Jan 2022:
  
  What a great question! One we would all love to know the answer to.. 😆😅 It will be highly dependent on the nature of any future variants.
- Danielle Nader answered on 11 Jan 2022:
  
  Tricky question. Many scientists are predicting 2022 could be the ”end” of the pandemic- but not in the sense that we will stop hearing about it on the news, or stop getting vaccines and boosters. Moreso that the number of ICU cases and deaths will be low enough that countries can stop implementing lockdowns, travel restrictions, indoor restrictions etc. But I think the true end of the pandemic will only be signaled when the global economy starts to heal. There are many global shortages of goods and services, which is a hugely damaging side effect of the pandemic.
- John Tulloch answered on 11 Jan 2022:
  
  I think we all wish we knew the answer to this one. It really does depend on what variants come along. One thing we know is that Covid is not going to suddenly disappear and as a society we need to adapt globally to control and manage it. Until the whole world has high vaccination rates, outbreaks of COVID will be inevitable.
- Melanie Krause answered on 11 Jan 2022:
  
  Hi
  I wish I knew the answer to that..
  I hope that we will eventually get a vaccine that does not just make it less likely to prevent infection and works well against severe disease (like the ones we have at the moment), but one that is super efficient at stopping infection (like the measles vaccine for example). Maybe governments should mandate vaccination then.. and hopefully that way enough people will be completely resistant to the virus 🙂
- Lucy Garner answered on 12 Jan 2022:
  
  This is a question all immunologists/virologists wish they could answer! As others have mentioned, it really depends on what variants arise – this affects the transmissibility of the virus (how fast it spreads through the population) as well as the severity. It is important that as many people around the world as possible are offered access to vaccines, as this will reduce overall transmission. The more virus circulating, the more likely virus variants are to arise.
- Amy Mason answered on 17 Jan 2022:
  
  We don’t know. It might stop unexpectedly – this has happened with pandemics in the past, like the “English sweating sickness”. That turned up every few years from 1485-1551, and then stops – we don’t know what caused it or why it stops.
  
  It might carry on for a long time like it is now – levels of infection rising and falling so there are times when we need to be extra careful and times when we can be more relaxed.
  
  It could get worse for a while. A variant could become more deadly and we might have to go back to a stricter lockdown again. It is unlikely that a variant would be much worse than the ones we have seen already, so we expect vaccines to mean it won’t get as bad again as it was in March 2020.
  
  My way of coping is to assume it is going to be like it has been for the last year for the next decade and to think about what I need to do/change in my life to be happy in that situation.

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