‘There will be an end in sight, it’s just unclear when’ — what endemic really means for COVID-19 | Toronto Star

CEID Faculty Dr. Syra Madad weighed in about the state of the pandemic:

“…’We often put these arbitrary times, you know, by summer we’re going to be free of this virus and we can go back to our life as we know it, but that’s the human timeline, not the viral timeline,’ she said. The ‘viral timeline’ can potentially take years and we ‘need to prepare for that,’ said Madad. But that doesn’t mean the virus needs to dominate our lives as we have tools to fight it: namely vaccines but also masks, and new treatments. ‘At the same time we need to continue to be cognizant that we are still in a pandemic,’ she said…”

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