When will COVID end? In this episode, David Hamer, a BU School of Public Health and School of Medicine professor of global health, discusses the future of the pandemic, what must happen next for the coronavirus to become more of a seasonal virus, and if annual booster shots will be a key step. Hamer, who is also a faculty member at BU's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), also explains why we must do more to control COVID-19 transmission around the globe.

For more information, check out Hamer's recent interview with The Brink, “Myths vs Facts: Making Sense of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation,” where he debunks widespread myths about the vaccines, booster shots, the Delta variant, and more. [ Ссылка ]

Video Chapters:
1:00 When will COVID end?
1:42 Can you help us understand other viruses, like SARS?
2:31 What do you mean when you say, “we just have to learn to live with COVID”?
4:09 Do we know yet if we’ll need annual COVID-19 booster shots?
6:45 How important is achieving herd immunity, or getting 80% or 90% of the population vaccinated?
8:24 What's it been like to see people who have not gotten the COVID-19 vaccine? What are those conversations like?

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