Eradication was always the goal. Covid-19 is not endemic yet, so the window for eradication is still open and it is attainable.
Every Ebola and Marburg outbreak in Africa is, in fact, a new emergence of those diseases. Every outbreak has been successfully contained, and the current one will be contained and eliminated as well. Unfortunately, until we can somehow rid bats of Ebola and Marburg, the sporadic outbreaks will continue.
We have eradicated smallpox. We have eradicated Rinderpest, an animal disease closely related to measles. We are on track to eradicate measles, polio, and guinea worm disease. In the US, we successfully eliminated yellow fever and malaria.
I do not know what the rationale is for sitting back and allowing Covid-19 to become endemic while we still have the opportunity to eradicate it. And when we have success eradicating other diseases.
and Georgia has had 4 weeks of being open which is 2 cycles of your longest incubation period
Let's see: Georgia daily status update.
If you scroll about halfway down the page, there is an interactive graph of daily case counts. I am posting a static image below. On the interactive image, you can move the vertical line and examine any specific day.
I do not know when Georgia lifted the stringent lockdowns, but it appears that there was a pretty evident uptick in case counts from May 11 to 19. The case counts have been dropping again. Perhaps that uptick was new cases that occurred after lock downs were lifted and before adequate public health measures--effective contact tracing, testing, and isolation of infected persons--were fully implemented.
