She believes COVID will be here with us in the next decade.
As Professor Sharon Peacock has explained, in order to contain the virus is important to understand how it’s adapting, and that’s something that needs to be done even the number of infections is going down and the acute phase of the pandemic will be over.
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“Once we get on top of [the virus] or it mutates itself out of being virulent—causing disease—then we can stop worrying about it,” she said. However, Peacock believes we will have to deal with COVID for many, many years from now on.