LOS ANGELES — So how much longer will the pandemic last?
No one is sure. Coronavirus cases are falling, but it would be a mistake to think the pandemic is over, experts say.
The last decline in cases means that we’re likely turning to a period of calm in this pandemic, representing a “containment” of the coronavirus, but “that is not the same as the pandemic being over,” Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, wrote in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times this week.
