On January 17, COVID-19 infections were predicted to hit a peak of 125 million daily, ten times more than the peak period of Delta infections last spring, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). On January 29, an article in the medical science journal The Lancet titled “COVID-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near” was published, making some waves. In it, author Christopher J Murray of the IHME highlighted a few significant increases and reductions that have taken place since the spreading of the Omicron strain. Together, this all signaled that the pandemic had reached a new stage, and we turned to Dr. Yuhong Dong, Chief Scientific Officer of a Swiss biotech company and expert in antiviral drug development and infectious diseases, to get a better sense of its implications on the future of health. Dr. Dong summarized the paper’s evidence for us: …