Our Nation’s Public Health: When will Covid 19 end?

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, take stock of the coronavirus pandemic, they know it's far from over but they also believe it won't last forever.

One of the key signs that countries like the United States is exiting the pandemic will be when hospitals are no longer filled to the brim with COVID-19 patients. And when the number of daily deaths starts to plummet.

For the nation's public health experts, deaths and hospitalizations have become a more reliable benchmark for progress than overall cases.

The more scientists have learned about the virus, the more they have moved away from concept of herd immunity — the idea that the virus will one day be stopped in its tracks when enough people are immune.