May 25, 2021
What is expected to happen is that the majority of the population will get infected and this will cause herd immunity via infection for around 3-6 months. Then the disease will become endemic to the community and decades of endemic outbreaks will continue until the disease becomes like the OC43 coronavirus, which caused a pandemic in 1889-90; the OC43 virus had an R0 of 1.78.