A professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, predicts that the COVID-19 pandemic will be “almost gone” by April.
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Surgeon Marty Makary, who is a professor in the university’s School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, made this hypothesis in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal Friday.
Mr. Makary argues in particular that daily coronavirus infections have fallen by 77% since January in the United States.
“There is reason to believe that the country is heading towards a very low level of infection. Since so many people have been infected, including a majority who had no symptoms or mild symptoms, there are fewer Americans left to be infected, ”he wrote.
“With the current trajectory, I envision COVID will be almost gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal lives,” he adds.
Marty Makary believes that the high number of people who have been infected, coupled with the vaccine campaign, could contribute to the achievement of collective immunity in the spring. The expert is also of the opinion that this would protect the population against variants of the virus and limit their spread.
“When the chain of transmission of the virus is broken in several places, it becomes more difficult for the virus to spread – and that includes the variants,” he describes.
Since March 2020, more than 28 million people have contracted COVID-19 in the United States. Of this number, nearly 500,000 people have died from the coronavirus disease.
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