Viruses such as common cold are continiously living in the world. Moreover, others such as hepatitis B,C are also in the same fassion. So don't you think that it seems tricky to eradicate COVID_19 virus? I think it survives in the world like other viruses in the world forver,yet we adapt to it like other viruses.
The spike protein mutation of the COVID-19 virus has resulted in this strain of corona virus being the dominant virus in Europe and most of the world.Though there is an ongoing vaccination program ,recent data suggests that not all patients may develop immunity to the virus.Thus the concept of herd immunity still has a long way to go.
Hence the COVID-19 is likely to be with us for much longer than we initially anticipated.
We may be able to take the “fangs” off the virus but for all intents and purposes it’s here to stay
No. Please see the link below.
https://www.sciencealert.com/history-tells-us-the-future-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-has-no-end-date
Rapid COVID-19 tests can detect most coronavirus infections that will lead to further transmission, according to simulations incorporating the results of more than 3.5 million coronavirus tests.
Rapid coronavirus tests performed by hand-held test kits called antigen lateral-flow devices could bolster test-and-trace programmes. But such tests are less effective at detecting infections than are slower, gold-standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
David Eyre and Tim Peto at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK, and their colleagues analysed testing and contract-tracing data collected in England from 1 September 2020 to 28 February 2021 (L. Y. W. Lee et al. Preprint at medRxiv https://doi.org/f5jc; 2021). The study included data from about one million people with positive coronavirus PCR tests and the results of PCR tests from about 2.5 million other people who had come into contact with them.
The team used data on the performance of lateral-flow devices to estimate that the most sensitive rapid tests could have detected nearly 90% of cases that led to an infected contact. The team also found that people with higher levels of SARS-CoV-2 in their bodies tended to be more infectious than people with lower levels.
Infection with the B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in the United Kingdom, increased transmission by about 50%. The findings have not yet been peer reviewed.
“Eradicating this virus right now from the world is a lot like trying to plan the construction of a stepping-stone pathway to the Moon. It’s unrealistic,” says Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
While it’s possible to flatten the curve using control measures, getting to zero COVID-19 with them is more difficult. Achieving herd immunity through vaccination has, in theory, the potential of getting us to the elusive zero COVID-19. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/reaching-zero-covid19/
Many diseases such as malaria, HIV, flu, etc. have become endemic and still live with humanity for decades. It wwill not be a surprise if Covid-19 become endemic
Ideally, humanity would eradicate COVID-19 so there are no new cases globally even in the absence of preventive measures. However, experience with other disease eradication programmes suggests that this will be very challenging and may not be technically feasible. https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/could-covid-19-ever-be-eradicated
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