COVID-19 may one day come and go like the flu, but we’re not there yet.

Since the novel coronavirus was first detected in December, it has spread around the world and flourished in all kinds of climates. But over time COVID-19 is likely to become a seasonal problem that peaks in winter in temperate regions, scientists reported on September 15 in the journal Frontiers in Public Health. The researchers—based at the American University of Beirut and Qatar University in Doha—reviewed what is known about other respiratory viruses and preliminary research on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. To read the full story.