Whatever happens around the world, scientists say, COVID is here to stay.
“My prediction is that cases (of COVID) will kind of wax and wane like what happened last year. The question is what comes after XBB.1.5,” said Shirin Mazumder, associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, where she teaches about infectious diseases. She treats adults for infectious diseases, including COVID, in her medical practice at Methodist University Hospital.