How the world learns to live with covid-19
From pandemic to epidemic
WINTER 2025 could, with luck, be normal. Health-care systems will come under strain, as always, from the spread of respiratory diseases that land people in hospital. Influenza will afflict the elderly. Respiratory syncytial virus will make some children gravely ill. And a newish seasonal disease will belong in the mix: covid-19. It will overwhelmingly sicken the old, even more than flu. But, outside hospitals, life will continue largely uninterrupted.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “What lies ahead”
Briefing October 16th 2021
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