August 25th, 2021 | 1160
All pandemics will eventually end, how they will end differs. Historically, pandemics end when either the number of cases plummets, and the disease becomes manageable and predictable; or they end when people grow tired of it.
For public health purposes, pandemics become endemic when they stop becoming a burden on health care systems, with small flair-ups that can be managed by healthcare systems.