‘On-and-off periods of social distancing will likely be needed into 2022 to ensure that hospitals have enough capacity for future Covid-19 patients in need of critical care, according to a new modeling study from researchers at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
‘The research, published April 14, 2020 in the journal Science, predicted several scenarios for how the coronavirus might spread over the next five years, taking into account factors such as whether or not the virus will exhibit seasonality, whether people who are infected go on to develop short-term or long-term immunity, and whether people would get any cross-protective immunity from having been infected with other types of coronaviruses that cause common colds.’
Read here (Harvard School of Public Health, April 14, 2020)
