How Pandemics End

How Pandemics End

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

How Pandemics End, Earth’s Pulse, Black Smoke

Episode: How Pandemics End, Earth’s Pulse, Black Smoke

  • Jul 20, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 17:31 mins

COVID-19 cases are surging again after being on the decline for months. How will the pandemic finally end? Will it end? What’s to stop the COVID virus from just continuing to mutate its way around any efforts to contain it? Earth has beaten other pandemics, even without vaccines, in the past. How’d that happen? Jonathan Yewdell, an expert in viruses and immunity and a senior investigator at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, explains. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)