How do pandemics end?

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How do pandemics end?

WHEN will the pandemic end?All these months in, with more than 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than one million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue.

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Meharry Medical College (1876- )

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Fisher, Ada M. (1947- )

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