There's little reason to focus on COVID-19 as our next target for elimination. Compared to measles, polio, and smallpox, this is nothing. Most of the people who die of COVID would have succumbed to any infection.
If they are going to do that, they need to say it. At this point you see a lot of people not really goal oriented at scale.
With COVID-19, the cat's likely already out of the bag. It's going to bounce around in reservoirs forever and keep coming back, unless we're lucky and it wipes itself out through vaccinating everyone who catches it then not mutating enough (note every host is a mutation opportunity).
There's little reason to focus on COVID-19 as our next target for elimination. Compared to measles, polio, and smallpox, this is nothing. Most of the people who die of COVID would have succumbed to any infection.
If they are going to do that, they need to say it. At this point you see a lot of people not really goal oriented at scale.
With COVID-19, the cat's likely already out of the bag. It's going to bounce around in reservoirs forever and keep coming back, unless we're lucky and it wipes itself out through vaccinating everyone who catches it then not mutating enough (note every host is a mutation opportunity).