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That's my hope as well, but I think it's mostly wishful thinking. Best case: Omicron gives everyone a baseline resistance, so that future mutations are more li

That's my hope as well, but I think it's mostly wishful thinking. Best case: Omicron gives everyone a baseline resistance, so that future mutations are more like the flu. We'll get new mutations a couple times a year. Some will contact them, some won't. It will be fatal to those with comorbidities (just like the flu) I don't think covid is ever actually going away, though. It is just too contagious.

hagbard_c 5y ago
"End of the pandemic" does not mean the end of the disease, it means it will become endemic and as such something we have to deal with. Influenza is endemic, it takes many lives yet society abides. The same will be true for SARS2 until it either dies out by itself (like SARS1 did) or some generic coronavirus vaccine takes out this class of pathogen once and for all.