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COVID 19 – are we close to the end of the corona pandemic?

In the past two years, most of us have been forced to contend with significant and unpredictable restrictions placed on our day-to-day activities. As a direct consequence of the event, millions of lives have been lost. As a result, the economy and the quality of life have suffered. This fact should, therefore, not be shocking that a sizable number of people continue to cling to the hope that the COVID-19 pandemic may soon end. People in these situations now have a reason to have hope in countries where restrictions have been loosened up or eliminated.

The increased transmissibility of the Omicron strain, as well as its capacity to avoid at least some of the protection offered by vaccines and previous infections, should serve as a reminder of how difficult it is to forecast how this pandemic would develop. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), stated a month ago that it is unwise to expect the Omicron strain to be the final variation and that we are in the end game of this epidemic.

We have not yet arrived at our destination. On the other hand, the finish line is in sight, “Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who serves as the World Health Organization (WHO)director general, spoke with reporters online. It is hypothesised that any new mutations will give rise to a disease even milder than Omicron. This is the case even if they do occur. Any evidence does not support this assertion. This would happen if the virus benefitted from producing a less severe illness and, as a result, increased the amount of time that its host was able to live.

During the days leading to symptoms, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is at its peak level of contagiousness. The majority of the symptoms that we’ve observed in individuals who have been hospitalised are the result of the host’s immune system reacting to the virus. Because the virus can overstimulate some immune cells, it is difficult to “turn them off” so that they will cease attacking healthy cells in addition to infected ones. This is because the virus can drive some immune cells to become infected themselves. The virus has already moved on to infect another host when the host begins to show signs of severe illness. We lucked out with Omicron being resistant to the virus since there is no selective pressure for the virus to grow less destructive over time.

The new COVID-19 strain will add another recurrent disease to the load already placed on healthcare systems and local populations. Infections caused by COVID-19 will persist, but the end of the pandemic is getting closer, according to a study published in The Lancet. The study stated that “after the Omicron wave, COVID-19 will return, but the pandemic will not,” which means the pandemic will not continue.

“Covid-19 will turn into another recurrent disease that countries and their health care systems will have to deal with. According to the research, the time when governments and communities had to take extreme measures to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is coming to an end.

The study elaborated that the virus will continue to be passed from person to person, saying, “Immunity will wear off over time, whether it was acquired by infection or vaccination, which will leave open the door for further SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Because seasonality is involved, governments should prepare for higher potential transmission rates during winter.”

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