'We must be prepared for at least another 18 to 24 months of significant COVID-19 activity, with hot spots popping up periodically in diverse geographic areas,' the CIDRAP report read.
-2 and flu viruses are different in many ways, such as the former's longer incubation period which enables it to"move silently" through populations, previous flu pandemics are a useful point of comparison for the current crisis, the authors said. For instance, a strain of flu with the potential to cause a pandemic and SARS-CoV-2 would both be new viruses to which humans have no immunity, and can spread asymptomatically through respiratory droplets.
Currently, around 5 to 15 percent of people in the U.S. are thought to have been infected by the virus, but the outbreak likely won't stop until the figure reaches 60 to 70 percent, he said.
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