The pandemic is over? The virus didn’t get the memo

COVID-19 isn’t a pandemic any more. It’s just a never-ending nightmare.

Laurie Garrett

May 12, 2023 – 5.00am

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In early 2020, I widely predicted that the then-new COVID-19 pandemic would be a 36-month battle. I added at that time that choices made by governments in the first weeks of the pandemic would decide whether the 36-month point marked the cessation of all human deaths to the new disease, or merely the virus’s retreat from explosive spread to a new, permanent threat to humanity, akin to HIV.

I was wrong. It wasn’t 36 months from the declaration of a pandemic in March 2020 – it’s 38 months. I apologise for the two-month miscalculation.

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