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When is a pandemic over?

  Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario, several months ago a highly infectious , sometimes deadly virus infected humans for the first time. And then it spreads faster than public health managers can contain it. Now the world health organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic meaning there is spreading world wide .The death toll is starting to rise and everyone is asking the same question. When will the pandemic end? The WHO will likely declare the pandemic over once the infection is mostly contained and rates of transmission drops significantly throughout the world. But exactly when that happens depends on what global governments choose to do next. They have three main options . Raise through it , delay and vaccinate or coordinate nd crush.  1. In the first , governments and communities do nothing to hold the spread and instead allow people to get exposed as quickly as possible. Due to this measure hundreds and thousands and more get infected instantly and some may perished and