Covid-19: What can we expect from the pandemic in 2022?

In the 3rd twelvemonth of the coronavirus pandemic, expect much variants, little decease rates and immoderate continuing restrictions

Health 4 January 2022

By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson and Helen Thomson

Theme parkland visitors show their covid passes successful France, July 2021

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While the pandemic is improbable to fully extremity successful 2022, we tin anticipation to see immoderate affirmative changes: much vaccine coverage, improved treatments and reduced mortality. But mitigation measures, specified as mask wearing and societal distancing, volition stay important for controlling outbreaks and restricting the improvement of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Maria Van Kerkhove, the method pb connected covid-19 astatine the World Health Organization (WHO), dislikes the operation “learning to unrecorded with the virus”. She says: “I don’t deliberation we …