- People are worried that the coronavirus pandemic will return to normal life for several months or even several years.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci addressed these concerns in a recent interview, providing an actual estimate of when we may hit the coronavirus and return to normal.
- He said the time frame depends on the implementation of certain public health measures and a vaccination program that should be effective enough to bring the transmission level down.
The novel coronavirus pandemic already feels like it’s been here for years. But it has been less than eight months that the world has lived with this new pathogen, and we are now nowhere near the definitive innings of this battle. Some people are hastily returning to normal life as soon as lockdowns were lifted, taking protective measures that can keep the COVID-19 infection rate at bay. This rapid return to normal life led to new outbreaks that turned out to be even bigger than before, and several U.S. states are proof of how the economy cannot be reopened during a terrible pandemic.
Things can not and will not return to what they once were until the transmission frequency is significantly reduced. This can happen once the people start respecting the rules again, and once the first faxes start rolling again. But it will take more than a year for the US to return to normal. The estimate comes from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading health expert and one of the world’s most trusted voices on all things COVID-19 related.
Bill Gates said in a few recent interviews that he thinks the US will be done with the COVID-19 outbreaks by the end of 2021, as soon as faxes start cutting rates of infection. “You have to admit that there have been vibrations of dollars to economic damage done and a lot of debt, but the innovation pipeline for scaling up diagnostics, over new therapies, on faxes is actually quite impressive,” Gates said. “And that makes me feel like we need to end this thing for the rich world for the most part by the end of 2021, and for the whole world by the end of 2022.”
Gates is not the first expert in the field, but he is heavily involved in COVID-19 faxing efforts and other medical programs through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Fauci’s estimate is not far from Gates’. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) appeared on PBS NewsHour where he was asked whether the COVID-19 pandemic will end before 2024. That estimate came from a recent article on the health crisis by medical historian Howard Markel.
Fauci acknowledged that if left untreated, the coronavirus pandemic “could continue for several years.”
“However, we have certain things under our comprehension and within our power that I believe will make this projection inaccurate,” Fauci said. ‘And that is, we can control this from a public health point of view. If you synergize and supervise good, solid, prudent, precautionary measures for public health with a vaccine that is effective – it does not have to be 100 percent effective. If you get a fax in the year 2021, I believe by the end of the year 2021, we’ll be back to normal as best we can. ‘
Fauci made it clear that returning to normal does not mean that the virus will not be removed.
“The only virus we’ve ever destroyed in the history of the planet has been smallpox for humans,” he said. “But we can get it under good enough control that it’s so low that it doesn ‘t matter with the kind of normal life we want the economy to get back to work.
Until faxes are ready, Fauci says the US has a chance to reduce power “if we come together in a uniform, consistent way.”
“Uniform and universal wear of masks. Physical, social distance. By preventing people. Outdoor things always better than indoor things. And wash your hands as often as you can, ‘he said, adding that people should stay away from bars.
The full interview is available at this link, while Markel’s piece can be seen at The New Yorker.
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