Absolutely. In my not quite uneducated but nowhere near professional opinion, SARS-CoV-2 is not going anywhere, even in a best-case scenario of vaccine producti

Absolutely. In my not quite uneducated but nowhere near professional opinion, SARS-CoV-2 is not going anywhere, even in a best-case scenario of vaccine production and vaccination programmes, and will become endemic in the World population. However, the clinical presentation of COVID-19 as we know it will slowly disappear, and over the course of the next 5, 10 or 20 years will just become another common cold virus in circulation. There will indeed be severe cases resulting in pneumonia, of course, but there are severe cases of other common cold viruses. I think that what we've been living through in 2020 and at the moment is the birth of a new common cold virus from scratch. We're just lucky enough that our vaccine technology is advanced enough for our societies to speed up the process of training our immune systems to become accustomed to it with less loss-of-life than if nature had taken its full course.