Well, no, if you have enough isolation then the virus runs out of hosts. It goes extinct unless it can survive latently or in some other host species. If we are getting infected by bats consistently then we are in trouble.
That's wishful thinking. The virus will survive in Africa, or India, or many of the other places that are incapable or unwilling to enforcing a complete lockdown (many of these places are in the US itself).
As I mentioned above, we have only ever erradicated _one_ infectious disease in all of human history. The chances of COVID, with its highly infectious nature, being the second are quite slim.
Just like the first outbreak, all it takes is one person with the virus to start the whole process over again.
As I mentioned above, we have only ever erradicated _one_ infectious disease in all of human history. The chances of COVID, with its highly infectious nature, being the second are quite slim.
Just like the first outbreak, all it takes is one person with the virus to start the whole process over again.