It's difficult to eradicate a virus completely, and COVID-19 isn't any different. The disease might never go away, but it doesn't mean that everyone will have to self-isolate forever.
, nearly 5 million people have tested positive and more than 160,000 have died. While scientists are racing to find a cure for the virus, there's a chance COVID-19 will never fully go away — with or without a vaccine.Dr. Vineet Menachery, a coronavirus researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, told NPR'sthat one of the more likely scenarios is that the spread of COVID-19 will eventually be slowed as a result of herd immunity.
in 2002, but we know that those viruses or viruses that are similar to it still exist in nature and at any time they may gain the tools to reemerge in humans again.So it's still up in the air. COVID-19 is really unique in a couple of different ways. One, like the common cold coronaviruses, it spreads very easily, but unlike those, this causes this severe disease. What we know about the common cold coronaviruses is that the immunity to those don't actually stay that long.
And then the expectation I have is that this virus will actually become the next common cold coronavirus. What we don't know with these common cold coronaviruses is if they went through a similar transition period. So, say something like OC43, which is a common cold coronavirus that was originally from cows. It's been historically reported that there was an outbreak associated with the transition of this virus from cows to humans that was very severe disease, and then after a few years, the virus became just the common cold.
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