When will the pandemic end? Hopkins experts step in – CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -– Is the pandemic almost over? This question is on the minds of millions of Americans after nearly two years of modified schedules, virtual work, sickness in families and major changes in the way we live every day.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is now shining a light on our position, as a society, as we move forward in the fight against COVID.

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Bloomberg School epidemiologist Dr David Dowdy said the data suggests we are in a better place this year than we are entering the holiday season in 2020, but the coronavirus is not going to die off in the near future. , if ever.

James Olsen lives in Montana but was visiting Baltimore and told WJZ: “I think this is going to last a long time where we live.”

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Elaine Frazer, a Baltimore resident, said she still had questions about immunizations and recalls: “I would ask for advice on when a youngster like me should get a booster.”

Dr Rupali Limaye, a vaccine specialist at the school, said about 60% of the eligible population in the United States is vaccinated and the goal now is to have children between the ages of 5 and 11 vaccinated. Herd immunity, at least the herd immunity we might have hoped for, might never be achievable, but the vaccine helps.

“I’m not sure we’ll ever go back to the old version of normal,” Howard County’s Harlem Roberts said.

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The quote from the doctors of science is positive. A winter surge like the one in 2020 is less likely, but as for the complete disappearance of COVID, it is unlikely. And the virus is not going anywhere in the near future.