'This is the life cycle of a typical pandemic to have these surges and these waves that are this high and this severe for a couple of years.'
Dr. Mia Taormina, right, chair of the department of infectious disease at Duly Health and Care, pictured at her Lombard clinic, was part of the team that diagnosed the first case of COVID-19 in DuPage County at Elmhurst Hospital.
On March 9, 2020, Dr. Mia Taormina, chair of the department of infectious disease at Duly Health and Care , was part of the team that diagnosed the first case of COVID-19 in DuPage County. The case was diagnosed at Elmhurst Hospital, just a few days after Taormina returned home from giving a lecture in Costa Rica.
“I mean, it’s so ironic,” she said. “I remember giving an interview similar to this saying, this could absolutely be something that we have to deal with for the next two years. And it’s so weird that here we are, and we really are at that transition point. This is the life cycle of a typical pandemic to have these surges and these waves that are this high and this severe for a couple of years.”
With March marking the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, Taormina, who sees patients at Duly locations in Elmhurst, Hinsdale and Lombard, recently spoke over the phone about where the pandemic is now, why it feels like it’s “over” even though it’s not quite and offers a silver lining after a tumultuous two years.
Q: Is there hope that COVID-19 will soon evolve into an endemic like the flu? With more information now known, how similar, or different, are they?It can be similar to the flu in the sense that we will have something that we have to live alongside. We think about the 1918 Spanish influenza, we are still getting flu shots to this day that cover descendants from that strain.
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