A local professor of virology and immunology says the province is moving into the learning to live with COVID phase.
The latest numbers released on Wednesday show close to 500 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the previous week with two deaths and five people in hospital.
(Photo: Rich Blenkinsopp MUN Gazette)
Rod Russell says those numbers are far higher than the province would have been comfortable with at the early stages of the pandemic, which is an indicator of how the population is getting used to living with the virus in circulation.
He believes the situation will get better as COVID becomes part of our lives, but he doubts we’ll ever achieve herd immunity that will prevent its spread.
Instead, Russell says, we’ll probably achieve a general immunity which will mean the illness will be less severe in many who get it. In the meantime, he says there will always be members of the population who will be vulnerable to the virus and should probably take added precautions.
