Consider this unfortunately familiar scenario.
Several months ago a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus
infected humans for the first time.
It then proliferated faster than public health measures could contain it.
Now the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic,
meaning that it's spreading worldwide.
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 drop significantly throughout the world.
But exactly when that happens depends on what global governments choose to do next.
They have three main options:
Race through it, Delay and Vaccinate, or Coordinate and Crush.
One is widely considered best, and it may not be the one you think.