The Potential Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic Will SARS-CoV-2 Become a Recurrent Seasonal Infection?

This Viewpoint discusses the prospect that COVID-19 could become a recurrent seasonal disease like influenza and proposes strategies to mitigate the consequences for communities and health systems, including changes in surveillance, medical and public health response, and socioeconomic programs.

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The viewpoint discusses the possibility of COVID-19 becoming a seasonal disease like influenza and suggests strategies to mitigate the consequences for communities and health systems, including changes in surveillance methods, medical and public health responses, and socioeconomic programs.