Infectious Diseases Experts Foresee COVID Reaching 60-70% Of Population In 2 Years

General view taken on April 03, 2020 of the temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients located at the Ifema convention and exhibition centre in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP via Getty Images)
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Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director at Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, had some bleak news about the future of the COVID-19 pandemic on Friday.

During an interview on CNN, Osterholm explained a report he and his colleagues at the university had released early in the day, which found that the virus will likely keep spreading for 18 to 24 months until it reaches the high threshold of COVID-19 cases needed to create a herd immunity.

“This is going to continue to do that until 60% or 70% of the population has been infected,” the doctor told CNN anchor Jim Sciutto.

Osterholm warned that the pandemic is a “rolling situation” throughout the world and that New York, which currently has the highest number of cases in the U.S. by far, won’t be the only area to suffer an explosion of infections.

“Expect many more New Yorks to occur,” he said. “It’s very likely they will.”

Watch Osterholm below:

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  1. “Expect many more New Yorks to occur,” he said.

    How I wish he were talking about purple states turning blue…

  2. This push by some governors to open before meeting any of the safe opening benchmarks experts are calling for isn’t going to help this.

  3. Sounds about right…which means these experts will be ignored for the most part.

  4. The virus will likely keep spreading for 18 to 24 months…“This is going to continue to do that until 60% or 70% of the population has been infected…Expect many more New Yorks to occur."

    Sure, but at least we avoided the apocalyptic dystopia of electing Pantsuit Lady.

    Because, oh my G-d, what a disaster that would’ve been!

  5. But summer is here! People have to go to the beach! It is in the Constitution!

    What would Frankie and Annette do?

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