Probably as soon as vaccination gets at 60%-ish, if you live in the US, I expect that to be somewhere around June, though I also expect people will wear masks regularly from now on and you will have to take a covid vaccine yearly or whatever, I think measures are going to get lifted bit by bit, seeing if there are negative impacts with each restriction lifted, until stuff is back to normal (so don't expect like a huge triumphal "we got 'em" moment). Covid will stay with us forever, but it won't have the same impact against a vaccinated population as it does against an inmunologically naive population, even accounting for strains, nobody vaccinated has been hospitalized for covid so far (that's great news). I assure hardly anyone will talk about covid by mid 2022, and by 2025 it'll feel distant, like this was a different era.
If you're outside any of the vaccine production centers though (US, UK, China to an extent), probably somewhere between autumn 2021 and spring 2022, maybe 2023 if your country is in a particularly bad spot.
Probably as soon as vaccination gets at 60%-ish, if you live in the US, I expect that to be somewhere around June, though I also expect people will wear masks regularly from now on and you will have to take a covid vaccine yearly or whatever, I think measures are going to get lifted bit by bit, seeing if there are negative impacts with each restriction lifted, until stuff is back to normal (so don't expect like a huge triumphal "we got 'em" moment). Covid will stay with us forever, but it won't have the same impact against a vaccinated population as it does against an inmunologically naive population, even accounting for strains, nobody vaccinated has been hospitalized for covid so far (that's great news). I assure hardly anyone will talk about covid by mid 2022, and by 2025 it'll feel distant, like this was a different era.
If you're outside any of the vaccine production centers though (US, UK, China to an extent), probably somewhere between autumn 2021 and spring 2022, maybe 2023 if your country is in a particularly bad spot.