{"id":106201,"date":"2020-04-28T21:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-will-coronavirus-end-it-depends-on-our-immunity-three-possible-outcomes"},"modified":"2020-04-28T21:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:24:47","slug":"how-will-coronavirus-end-it-depends-on-our-immunity-three-possible-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-will-coronavirus-end-it-depends-on-our-immunity-three-possible-outcomes","title":{"rendered":"How Will Coronavirus End? It Depends on Our Immunity. Three Possible Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-will-coronavirus-end-it-depends-on-our-immunity-three-possible-outcomes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">the curve finally flattening<\/a> in the US, the ramping up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">anti-viral<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/milkeninstitute.org\/covid-19-tracker\">vaccine trials<\/a> against SARS-CoV-2\u2014the virus that causes Covid-19\u2014and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercebiotech.com\/medtech\/fda-cdc-nih-to-begin-validating-covid-19-antibody-tests-as-more-enter-market\">launch of antibody tests<\/a> to screen for previous infection, it seems like science is rapidly moving towards the end game. How exactly the Covid-19 pandemic will finally bugger off into history is still anyone\u2019s guess, but virologists and public health experts generally agree that immunity is key\u2014either through widespread safe and effective vaccination, or when enough of our population has recovered from infections and gained herd immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Well. That\u2019s the hand-waving, shruggie emoji, \u201ceh who knows\u201d short answer.<\/p>\n<p>Like most processes in biology, immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is complex and mysterious, with results that could rapidly diverge into many possible futures. It\u2019s partly why estimates of how long Covid-19 sticks around to wreak havoc can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2020\/03\/how-will-coronavirus-end\/608719\/\">vary enormously<\/a>, from months to years to\u2026well, seasonal and forever, similar to the flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the curve finally flattening in the US, the ramping up of anti-viral and vaccine trials against SARS-CoV-2\u2014the virus that causes Covid-19\u2014and the launch of antibody tests to screen for previous infection, it seems like science is rapidly moving towards the end game. How exactly the Covid-19 pandemic will finally bugger off into history is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}