Learning from history, COVID-19 may never leave us. It might simply become a seasonal virus we have to deal with.
The pattern today has shifted away from deaths caused by infection to deaths caused by noncommunicable diseases.
Pandemics always end. Vaccines, except for ones that eradicated smallpox, have never played a significant role in ending them.Source: Everett Collection/Shutterstock Noncommunicable diseases now account for 63 percent of mortalities. Risks in our environment now outweigh the risks of diseases communicated by agents of infection, such as bacteria and viruses. Obesity,, and pollution are among our biggest concerns now. Well, that was until infections from COVID-19 were first reported in China in 2019 and changed the pattern of diseases.
The option of vaccinating our way out of the pandemic is the ideal way. Except for some wealthy nations, such as the United States and larger European states, this is an expensive toll highway for most countries to access in the near term. Scientists can look, as well, to the past to help answer these questions and predict the future .
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