If the reduction is maintained until there are no infectious cases (and any virus outside bodies has either been sanitized or died on its own) then you can reco

If the reduction is maintained until there are no infectious cases (and any virus outside bodies has either been sanitized or died on its own) then you can reconnect the social graph and the virus will not re-emerge. It's not magic after all: the physical virus has to actually be present to restart the outbreak.