Comment: The tortuous path to ending the COVID-19 pandemic

Just over a year back, the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern”. The COVID-19 pandemic, an extraordinary one-in-a-century event, has devastated health services, shut down schools and societies, and plunged the world into an economic recession. While 2020 was a challenging year, 2021 looks to be even more difficult with the emergence of multiple variants, creating a cat-and-mouse game between the race to vaccinate the world, and the pathogen’s constant evolution to evade immunity. What marks the path to the end of this pandemic?

Read Arnaud Fontanet's comment in The Lancet review