Social distancing, masking and other measures should remain in place until late July, “and that may be optimistic,” Shaman said. “There are people who are going to want to relax the controls we have in place,” Shaman said. Vaccines will help, but the pandemic will mostly burn out on its own, as fewer and fewer people are available to infect, he said. He took the effectiveness of the vaccine to be 95% after the two standard doses for the vaccines available now. He said the combination of immunity from vaccines and infection could begin reining in the pandemic by late spring or early summer.

Source: bd News24 January 26, 2021 03:00 UTC