Experts Are Now Predicting A More Longer And Deadlier Pandemic That May Last 4 To 5 Years

 

Axios: Chilling trend: A longer, deadlier pandemic 

Mutated versions of the coronavirus threaten to prolong the pandemic, perhaps for years — killing more people and deepening the global economic crisis in the process. 

The big picture: 

The U.S. and the world are in a race to control the virus before these variants can gain a bigger foothold. But many experts say they already expect things to get worse before they get better. And that also means an end to the pandemic may be getting further away. 

 *  “It may take four to five years before we finally see the end of the pandemic and the start of a post-COVID normal,” Singapore’s education minister said last week, according to the Wall Street Journal. Read more .... 

WNU Editor: I have been hearing and reading for the past six months that this pandemic is going to be with us until 2022 or 2023. Pfizer's CEO more or less predicted this two days ago when he said upgraded vaccines are going to be necessary for the foreseeable future .... Pfizer CEO Says There Is A 'High Likelihood' That Covid Variants Will Make Current Vaccine Shots Ineffective (January 30, 2021). 

 All of this speculation does make sense. It took three years before the Spanish flu burned itself out. 

On a side note. I have a friend who is a senior executive for Air Canada, and he told me during Christmas that his airline does not see normal air travel returning until 2023 when (in his opinion) the pandemic would have ended.

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