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How will the Covid-19 pandemic end?
Sars came to a clear, abrupt, easily identifiable end; that is unlikely to be the case with Covid-19.
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The end of the Covid-19 pandemic will eventually come. But it won't look anything at all like the end of the Sars outbreak.
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Those old enough to remember the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) outbreak here in 2003 may recall some of the drama that took place during the final days of the epidemic.
As cases dwindled and fear of the disease started to fade, public attention turned to maths - specifically, how many days it had been since the last detected case.
