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Here's what experts say next six months of Covid pandemic will bring

Almost everyone will be either infected or vaccinated before the pandemic ends, experts agree

A masked restaurant worker with a thermometer in central Beijing on Aug. 8. Photographer: Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg
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A masked restaurant worker with a thermometer in central Beijing on Aug. 8. Photographer: Gilles Sabrie/Bloomberg

Michelle Cortez | Bloomberg
For anyone hoping to see light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel over the next three to six months, scientists have some bad news: Brace for more of what we’ve already been through. 
 
Outbreaks will close schools and cancel classes. Vaccinated nursing home residents will face renewed fears of infection. Workers will weigh the danger of returning to the office as hospitals are overwhelmed, once again.

Almost everyone will be either infected or vaccinated before the pandemic ends, experts agree. Maybe both. An unlucky few will contract the virus more than once. The race between the waves of transmission that

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