Everyone wants to be done with Covid. But no single milestone will signal the end of the virus.
Look past that mess of contradictions, and beyond them lies a difficult reality: We might never achieve a benchmark that lets us declare the pandemic is behind us. The best “over” we may be able to hope for is that it settles into an“There’s no exact point at which we can say, ‘OK, we’re done,’” says Jennifer Kates, a health policy analyst and senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation. “And that’s hard, because people want certainty.
Humans live by stories, and we especially like stories that end happily; it’s alluring to think of the pandemic as a storm that shakes your house but then blows through and reveals blue sky. But the more accurate narrative may be a storm that cracks a seawall holding back the ocean—and ever after, your tap water tastes the tiniest bit like salt.
“There’s no going back to 2019,” says Abraar Karan, a physician and infectious-disease researcher at Stanford University who studies the role of air filtration in reducing infection. “The dead aren’t coming back. The long-term consequences won’t be fully appreciated until we have more time to analyze them. And the variants aren’t going away.”
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