How long will COVID-19 be around?

As of 10/15/2020 8million people have contracted the virus in the USA.
That's about 2% of the US population.
So if we continue with social distancing and wearing face masks...14 day isolation..and all the other stuff we are doing ...keeping the status quo.
And since this is over a 9 month period.
It'll take about 50 years for everyone in the USA to catch it.
50 years of wearing masks!
Now they're saying you can catch it more than once.
To me that sounds like there IS NO immunity.
50 years of wearing masks!

Toddacanda2020-10-18T02:21:15Z

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Forever

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MD2020-10-20T00:23:48Z

It's difficult to develop antibodies to COVID-19, so it may be around a while in lesser forms even after a vaccine,

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Anonymous2020-10-17T04:07:20Z

You can't catch it twice. People who had SARS 17 years ago are probably immune. Once you catch a virus you are immune.

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Anonymous2020-10-17T03:38:35Z

Well, first you cannot calculate an infectious disease like you would a mortgage. It's a natural phenomenon and is therefore mercurial, unpredictable, chaotic. The fact is, people in the USA are not diligently wearing masks or observing social distancing. Also, there's no large-scale testing, no monitoring of those in quarantine and no effective contact tracing. Plus too many people are openly defying the guidelines-- like president Trump. As long as stupidity runs rampant and there's no single voice compelling prevention from our own govt, the pandemic will only get worse. So the US is the world's worst example and definitely not the place to base any estimates on.

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mokrie2020-10-17T03:10:59Z

Just like the flu comes around yearly this probably will also. That's why we will need a vaccine just like the flu shots since both will mutate and be different each year.

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How long will COVID-19 be around?

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