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Asked by anon-315743 on 14 Mar 2022.
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Gareth Nye answered on 14 Mar 2022:
We do have vaccines now and medications to help patients who have it but I don’t think it will ever go away
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Kerry Ann Brown answered on 14 Mar 2022:
Never say never! Medicine evolves all the time and the knowledge and experience of the last couple of years means we are in a far better place to manage the risks from covid 19 or future pandemics. The vaccines and different theraupeutics have been a big leap forwards in terms of managing these types of diseases.
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Mary Clarke answered on 14 Mar 2022:
Never say never…. at the start of the pandemic we had no vaccine, and now look at the position that we are in now! I think that Covid-19 will always be a part of society, much like many other diseases that we adapt to and learn to cope with. But everyday medicine progresses, new drugs become available and more knowledge about the pathology of the disease is leading to better therapies compared to where we were 2 years ago.
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Lauren DeLong answered on 14 Mar 2022:
Since the virus which causes COVID-19 changes so quickly, it might be hard or impossible to make a 100% effective vaccine or cure, but we already have very good vaccines. Medical scientists are also researching ways to treat the individual effects of COVID-19.
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Maria Whatton answered on 14 Mar 2022:
There is a huge amount of research ongoing in this area, but it can take on average 12 years to get a new drug to be fully approved. Yes I think we will have one specifically for covid-19, maybe even in 5 years time as the process gets faster. In the meantime we have vaccines and there are some medicines which were designed for other illness and have been recently been approved for treatment of covid-19 or are starting clinical trials to see if they work. These are unlikely to be perfect medicines for covid (so we still look for something better) but we have them sooner as they have already been through much of the safety testing – this is called drug re-purposing.
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Elmira Mohit answered on 14 Mar 2022:
There are medications available to help recover from covid, and the progress we have made with vaccinations are great. Hopefully the virus will become an endemic in due course, so it will only affect individual countries through mass vaccination. Maybe the best way to think of this is not that we want to ‘fix’ it but that we want to decrease the cases to the point where it is not affecting our daily lives. So like other diseases i.e. measles.
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Leon Willis answered on 14 Mar 2022:
I don’t think there will be a ‘fix’ for COVID-19, but we will certainly be able to manage it. There are many new medicines which have been approved to help your body fight off COVID-19. These include antibody-based medicines (the same type of drug I research) which can stick to the outside of the virus.
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Sophie Langdon answered on 15 Mar 2022:
I hope so but I think it is more likely that it becomes something like winter flu or the common cold where the rates are very low and not as many people die from it
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Elpida Vounzoulaki answered on 16 Mar 2022:
The vaccines help a lot so people dont get covid or have less symptoms and feel less ill if they do. It is a situation that will not go away, however, it will just eventually become more mild like the flu.
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Rebecca Locke answered on 16 Mar 2022:
There are some treatments approved for high risk patients to help them recover such as antibody treatments which, for example, stop the virus from being able to enter a cell or tell your immune system to attack it. There are also antiviral medicines which might stop the virus from being able to make more copies of itself. Despite these treatments we are far from a ‘fix’ for Covid though unfortunately!
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Chigozie Onuba answered on 17 Mar 2022:
Yes in the near future more medications will be produced. Not fix it but manage it.
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