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"[A major wave of infections and an exponential rise in daily cases is] almost like a rite of passage"
COVID-19 pandemicWe have all been questioning, When does COVID look like influenza?" sa — COVID-19 pandemic
"We have all been questioning, When does COVID look like influenza?" says Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, San Francisco. "And, I would say, Yes, we are there." Gandhi and other researchers argue that most people today have enough immunity — gained from vaccination, infection or both — to protect them against getting seriously ill from COVID. And this is especially so since the omicron variant doesnt appear to make people as sick as earlier strains, Gandhi says. So unless a more virulent variant emerges, COVIDs menace has diminished considerably for most people, which means that they can go about their daily lives, says Gandhi, "in a way that you used to live with endemic seasonal flu."
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The global COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other parts of Asia and then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020 and assessed it as having become a pa
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