No, COVID-19 isn’t winding down, scientists say, predicting it’ll be around the rest of our lives

Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 vaccine in production in Kalamazoo, Mich. (Pfizer via AP)

The coronavirus is not on its way out, experts say, no matter how much we want it to be.

Not even with updated boosters newly available to better protect against the variants now circulating, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropping its quarantine and distancing recommendations and people throwing off their masks and acting as if we’re back to pre-pandemic times.