Experts express optimism about COVID-19
pandemic coming to a close
While the coronavirus outbreak continued to rip through the country and daily counts of new infections rose to record heights, the seemingly impossible occurred: good news.

Promising trials from Pfizer and Moderna suggest that highly effective COVID-19 vaccines could be available in a matter of weeks, bringing the end of the pandemic in view for the first time since March.

But the end of the pandemic does not necessarily mean the eradication of COVID-19, epidemiologists said. The closing act of this public health calamity is likely to be a gradual return to a new normal, with infections, restrictions, and public health fears falling away one by one rather than all at once. 

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