Posted by Shyaku on September 15, 2020, 4:32 am, in reply to "Huh? What debate?"
Smallpox was eradicated. Case tracking, down-to-the-very-last-case in east Africa.
As all the country-by-country, state-by-state peaks come and go, and the closer COVID comes to being eradicated, the more people seem to say 'see? It was all a bunch of nothing, it was just another virus that came and went, like seasonal flu'.
So my point is that COVID is being eradicated, by tipping the R0 below 1.0. Where it says below 1.0 until the virus is entirely gone, there is no substantial second wave.