Medical Xpress January 20, 2022
Jan. 21 marks two years since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was reported in the U.S. In that time, the nation has made strides to keep the virus in check as much as possible with testing, masking, social distancing, vaccines and other precautionary measures. Despite that fact, nearly 850,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19.
Will living in a pandemic be the “new normal” for everyone in the future? Or will COVID-19 eventually be eradicated? While infectious diseases experts at Mayo Clinic say they don’t have a crystal ball, they do expect things to change in the future.
“At the present, we’re still in one of the surges of the pandemic—hopefully one of the last—if not the...