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What the Coronavirus End Game Will Look Like
The disease will eventually settle down as an endemic nuisance rather than a terror. In the meantime, it will change us.
Doctors will get better at treating the virus when hospitals aren’t so overwhelmed.
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Pandemics come and pandemics go.
In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling. Over the coming months, it’s likely that a significant share of the world’s population will experience some of the dread of the Covid-19 coronavirus that people in China have suffered over the past few months. Many will die.