The COVID-19 pandemic won't end with a bang, but more likely a fizzle — and a long, protracted one at that.
"I don't know if we're going to wake up one day and say, 'Oh, it's over now,'" says Eddie Holmes, an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.
"We've got so much virus overwhelming us that most vaccines would struggle to stop infections from happening, no matter how good they are." As restrictions begin to lift and Australia transitions to "living with COVID", case numbers will likely surge, as has been seen in countries such as Singapore and the UK., as protection against infection wanes and the proportion of vaccine recipients grows."It's the number of people going to hospital that is the key number now."
"Where long COVID plays into all of this is a separate question. Are vaccines protecting against that? I'm not really clear on that yet. I don't know if anybody is." "People without immunity being exposed to the virus is the thing we really need to slow down," she said.
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