>Good article, but doesn't mention the other reason that covid-19 is never going completely away: animal reservoirs. You realize there are thousands and thousa

>Good article, but doesn't mention the other reason that covid-19 is never going completely away: animal reservoirs. You realize there are thousands and thousands of viruses that are circulating every day for billions of years. New epidemic or pandemic can happen anytime anywhere. You can only mitigate it not prevent it. >It is implausible that it will ever cease to have an animal reservoir, especially given the finding in Canada of 30% of white-tailed deer having it. >Of diseases that get as widespread as this, with animal reservoirs, I don't believe there is any case of eliminating it. Exactly >But, like vaccines can teach the immune system how to respond more intelligently (and less self-destructively) to covid-19, hopefully society can learn to respond more intelligently, and less self-destructively, to the fact that it's always in circulation. For example society and in particular Institutes of Virology should take extra security precautions when experimenting with gain of function viruses.