What made the COVID pandemic end so abruptly--study

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Wed, 2024-08-28 10:22 — mike kraft

Research examines what made the COVID pandemic end so abruptly During the winter of 2020 and 2021, the US saw deaths from COVID-19 reach 250,000. The following year, this number surged by a third to 330,000. But from August 2022 to March 2023, the number of deaths ... Samuel Jarman Medical Xpress

During the winter of 2020 and 2021, the US saw deaths from COVID-19 reach 250,000. The following year, this number surged by a third to 330,000. But from August 2022 to March 2023, the number of deaths related to COVID-19 deaths plummeted to just 80,000, abruptly ending the COVID pandemic. This dramatic decline couldn't be attributed solely to vaccines, which had already been widely available since spring 2021.

New research published in The European Physical Journal B by Marcelo Moret of CIMATEC in Brazil, together with James Phillips at Rutgers University, New Jersey, suggests that a phase transition in the molecular structure of the COVID-19 spike protein made the virus less likely to cause severe infections. Their results offer important insights into how the pandemic ended so quickly, and could help us to prepare for future pandemics.