[csours]

The virus spreads to other animals - no disease agent with an animal reservoir has ever been eradicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_reservoir

I wish it were otherwise, and maybe in the future it will be so.

[cameldrv]

Measles is also not eradicated. In 2019 in the U.S. there were 1282 cases, about 4 per day. Most people get Measles shots for their kids and basically never think about it again.

There are currently about 700,000 cases of COVID per day in the U.S. There is an enormous difference between these two viruses that are not eradicated.

[immibis]

There are states in between uncontrolled spread and total eradication. When COVID in the west has the same status as, for example, TB in the west, we can easily declare that the pandemic is over in the west.