09-08-2021-0641 - Why experts are focused on reducing Covid-19 risk instead of ending the pandemic.

America needs to decide how much Covid-19 risk it will tolerate

A realistic Covid-19 endgame requires accepting some risk. The question is how much.

.Why experts are focused on reducing Covid-19 risk instead of ending the pandemic.

“We’re not trying to go for zero Covid,” Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told me. “The question becomes: When do, in most communities, people feel comfortable going about their daily business and not worrying, excessively, about doing things that are important and meaningful to them?”

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