The battle against the COVID-19 pandemic will be a part of the daily lives of people around the world for the next three or four years, and the toll wrought by the virus will be felt for decades, predicts a scientist who helped eradicate smallpox five decades ago. As USA Today reported, however, the same scientist says it’s “not all doom and gloom.”
Dr. Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who worked with the World Health Organization to eradicate smallpox back in the 1970s. He predicted that the fight against the coronavirus will be not unlike similar efforts, carried out decades ago, to get the upper hand on other fatal infectious diseases.
“It will be like the smallpox eradication program. The polio eradication program. Having yellow fever in some countries and not in others,” he said, referring to localized outbreaks of diseases here and there. He predicted a similar pattern with COVID-19: there will be repeated outbreaks, with hot spots jumping from country to country.
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