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But what comes next? There will be no snap of the fingers to make the virus disappear. Instead, the new buzzword we'll have to get used to be "endemic" - which means that Covid is, without doubt, here to stay.
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Is the pandemic entering its endgame? "We're almost there, it is now the beginning of the end, at least in the UK," Prof Julian Hiscox, chairman in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, tells me. "I think life in 2022 will be almost back to before the pandemic." What's changing is our immunity. The new coronavirus first emerged two years ago in Wuhan, China, and we were vulnerable. It was a completely new virus that our immune systems had not experienced before and we had no drugs or vaccines to help many business listings.