Experts Say Covid-19 May Never Go Away, But It’s Becoming Manageable … Some think Hawaii is through the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but health officials urge caution as the virus becomes endemic.
Every weekday, the Hawaii Department of Health updates its Covid-19 data dashboard indicating what percentage of the state’s population has tested positive for the coronavirus.
It’s a critical piece of information that policymakers and the public have relied upon to understand how widespread the virus is that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
But at some point, the state will likely stop counting how many people have Covid each day, says Thomas Lee, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Hawaii.
The virus will continue to circulate, but its presence will no longer be an emergency. Like the flu, the virus may hospitalize and kill some people each year but not at the high rates of the past 19 months.
