Well that took long enough, didn't it? Seriously, we have been battling Covid-19 since the later weeks of 2019 and we will continue to battle for a bit longer it appears. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is responsible for the deaths of almost 6.5 million people. Those folks are parents, children, wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, you name it. This has been an incredibly frightening and sorrowful time in human history. Personally I am glad to see the optimism that perhaps we can begin to put this behind us.
According to the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,"We are not there yet, but the end is in sight." However, he also added in the same statement, "Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap the rewards of all our hard work."
This virus has been affecting our lives for almost 3 years straight and we will continue to deal with it for the foreseeable future, perhaps forever as it mutates and occasionally changes to elude vaccines. In fact some professionals, myself included, are seeing a world where a yearly vaccine is simply part of our lives... just like the yearly flu shot.
In the early days, there was massive fear as the virulent virus spread like wild fire and caused massive amounts of death. The virus caused a worldwide lockdown and isolation of almost everyone on the planet. That triggered problems in the supply chain that were unthinkable before. It's been a very difficult 3 years and we aren't over it yet.
However, *maybe* we are seeing a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel. That would be a Godsend for all of us.
Head over to Reuters.com to read the full article. It definitely feels uplifting to me.
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