Here's How Long We'll Be Struggling With COVID-19, Says Harvard Doctor [View all]

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The strange and surreal lifestyle we now find ourselves living in as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is a challenge. According to Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, the sacrifices and adjustments we are making to abate the spread of COVID-19 will likely need to continue for another year.

Appearing on CNN this weekend, Jha said of the coronavirus pandemic, "Not only is it not fading out — this will be with us for at least another 12 months, and that's the most optimistic scenario for having a vaccine." While there have been encouraging trial tests for both therapeutic treatments and vaccines, the broad application of a proven medicine is still roughly a year away according to experts.

Since the coronavirus outbreak was officially named a pandemic in March, different parts of the nation have had different methods to deal with the contagion. Every state is now at least in some phase of reopening since the White House directed shelter at home guidelines, though a half dozen or so states that opened up early in the process are seeing sharp spikes in cases, causing national debate over a second wave, or perhaps, a first wave that has not yet come to an end.

Donald Trump explained during a political rally Saturday night that the increased number of coronavirus cases are a direct result of the increased number of tests. This received pushback, however, by Dr. Tom Inglesby, the director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who explained on Fox News Sunday that the spikes in confirmed cases in many states in the South and West are not simply a result of increased testing. Inglesby noted that while overall testing is increasing, so too is the percentage of tests coming back as positive, particularly in states like Arizona, Texas, North and South Carolina, and Florida, he said, "That's a real rise."

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