Think life will return to normal once we have a coronavirus vaccine? Here’s why it won’t

• The arrival of the first coronavirus vaccines will allow life to return to normal, Canada's top health expert said during a briefing.
• People will have to respect safety guidelines for several years after vaccines arrive, and that includes social distancing and wearing face masks.
• Even with vaccine programs in place, face masks may be required for two to three more years, Dr. Theresa Tam said.

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Health experts have been telling us for the past few weeks that the novel coronavirus is here to stay. It won't go away on its own and we might never get rid of it, not even when vaccines and effective therapies can reduce transmission and prevent complications and death. That's not as bad as it sounds. We've been living with the flu for a lot longer than that, and new influenza strains often cause pandemics of their own. Once we do have drugs effective against COVID-19, the virus will become just another infectious disease that we've managed to tame.

Unfortunately, it'll be a few years until we get there. And we'll have to practice social distancing and wear masks for years to come, even after the first vaccines reach the public. That's according to Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam, who warned this week that vaccines aren't a "silver bullet."

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