If you read one doctor’s interview about the coronavirus pandemic, make it this one - BGR

All of which is to say, this is a doctor who’s given a new interview — to the USA Today editorial board — that more than lives up to the adjective inherent in his name, and which also can easily serve as the only coronavirus update you need today.

For example, the university’s latest data shows that there have been more than 4.7 million cases of the COVID-19 virus that have been identified in the US thus far (along with more than 156,000 deaths). “We will still be chasing the virus four years from now,” Brilliant warned in his sit-down with the editorial board.

However, it’s “not all doom-and-gloom.” Brilliant says that we should expect the coronavirus to keep spreading until it hits a wall, and that wall will likely end up being the combination of vaccines along with the immunity that’s been developed by people who now have antibodies that prevent them from getting the virus in the future

Even more promising, Brilliant insists that a coordinated strategy that includes much more widespread mandating of face masks, plus greater adherence to social distancing, hand-washing, and doing more to limit crowds in indoor places like bars and restaurants would obviate the need for a new national shutdown of some kind