Three Potential Futures For COVID-19: Recurring Small Outbreaks, a Monster Wave, or a Persistent Crisis
05/06/2020
As epidemiologists attempt to scope out what COVID-19 has in store for the U.S. this summer and beyond, they see several potential futures, differing by how often and how severely the no-longer-new coronavirus continues to wallop humankind, according to a Stat News report. But while these scenarios diverge on key details — how much transmission will decrease over the summer, for instance, and how many people have already been infected (and possibly acquired immunity) — they almost unanimously foresee a world that, even when the current outbreak temporarily abates, looks and feels nothing like the world of just three months ago.