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How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone

  • Written by Nükhet Varlik, Associate Professor of History, University of South Carolina
How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly goneThe COVID-19 new normal might be here for quite some time.SolStock/E+ via Getty Images

When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, epidemiologists and...

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