Washington: As the US battles the unabated rise of coronavirus cases as well as deaths, a new study from Minnesota-based Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) has said that COVID-19 virus may well last 18 to 24 months, especially given that only 5 per cent to 15 per cent of the US population is likely infected at this point.
The coronavirus cases increased to 1,070,032 with over 63,000 deaths in the US, according to Johns Hopkins University. In the report titled "The future of the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned from pandemic influenza," the researchers paint a grip picture of the pandemic and detail how it's behaving more like past influenza pandemics than like any coronavirus has to date. "States, territories, and