Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
by lamontcg on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:31PM
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Vaccines are still going to end the pandemic earlier with an enormous amount of lives saved.
But, you need to stop equating ending the pandemic with eliminating the virus.
After the pandemic ends the virus will be with the human race for the rest of our natural lives most likely.
We live with HCoV-229E and HCoV-OC43 and all of us catch that and nobody considers the pandemics that started transmission of those viruses in the human race to still be pandemics.
When the disease burden drops sufficiently then the pandemic is over. Vaccines reduce the disease burden dramatically.
But, you need to stop equating ending the pandemic with eliminating the virus.
After the pandemic ends the virus will be with the human race for the rest of our natural lives most likely.
We live with HCoV-229E and HCoV-OC43 and all of us catch that and nobody considers the pandemics that started transmission of those viruses in the human race to still be pandemics.
When the disease burden drops sufficiently then the pandemic is over. Vaccines reduce the disease burden dramatically.