As scientists have developed the vaccines, we can hope that the morbidity as well as mortality due COVID -19 may be reduced.

As scientists have developed the vaccines, we can hope that the morbidity as well as mortality due COVID -19 may be reduced.

I fully agree with Dr. Mahendra Pal we hope that

Thanks Mahendra Pal

Thanks Manal Hadi Kanaan

thank you Terri Purvis

Thank you Neda Ravankhah

May Not end but get reduce.

It will certainly reduced I hope so

we hope that all will be well soon M.K. Tripathi and Mahammad Khuddush

I think, pandemic will end with the effective application of the vaccine.

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Thank You Serdar Kalemci Definetly, Hope So that it will end.

No, COVID-19 pandemic won't end in 2021.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30226-3/fulltext

It will be controlled but will not end. It may end by the end of year 2022.

It will not end but its virulency will diminish

Thank you Subir Bandyopadhyay Gauri Shanker Seth Arvind Singh hope so that it will end shortly with the use of vaccination .

It is COVID-19 Vaccination year. I hope it will end the devastating pandemic.

Hope so Munish Sharma

As some vaccines are being launched among people worldwide and they are effective to a good extent, so we can hope about the ending of COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. But, new variants or some side effects of vaccination can lengthen the era of COVID-19 pandemic. Best regards.

- Sabuj Das

yes i agree Sabuj Das

I think there are 3 ways the pandemic will end quickly:

(1) Vaccination: The current shortage of vaccines will end quickly as more and more vaccines are licensed, as some countries have been hoarding and will soon dump the surplus vaccines on the market, and last but not least as production capacities are expanded.

(2) Herd immunity: Even in countries where vaccination is delayed and insufficient, more and more people are becoming immune because they already have COVID19 behind them.

(3) Because the virus tends to mutate in the long run so that it becomes more and more infectious, but much less deadly. Even if this is not yet the case, e.g. with the British variant, in the long run such variants could prevail and end the pandemic in its current form.

Unfortunately, other scenarios are also conceivable:

(1) The virus mutates in a form that renders at least some vaccines useless and thus significantly prolongs the pandemic, especially in the countries where the then useless vaccines were used.

(2) The virus mutates in a form that favours re-infection. This would particularly affect countries with already very high infection rates and little progress in vaccination.