It's been a year. When will the pandemic end?
It’s not likely covid-19 will be completely eradicated, at least not any time soon. That would be the best case scenario, said Dr. Graham Snyder, medical director of Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology at UPMC. The worst case would be that the virus continually evolves to become more deadly and requires more vaccine development every year. But more likely, experts say, the pandemic’s end will fall somewhere in the middle, where cases of covid-19 still occur, but they are less deadly and less frequent. “There’s a high probability it turns into an endemic virus like seasonal ...