When will you know the pandemic is over?

When will the pandemic be over? And who decides that? Two experts have some answers.

Julie Swann, the department head and professor of the industrial and systems engineering department at North Carolina State University, currently leads a group of researchers selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to do projections and analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We’re in a marathon, maybe even an ultra-marathon…”

In 2009, Swann served at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a science advisor for the H1N1 pandemic response.

Matt Koci, professor in the poultry science department at NC State, is a virologist and immunologist whose work focuses on host-microbe interactions in birds.

Here, the two explain how we’ll know when the pandemic is at and end and what life might look like after that:

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