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What stopped the pandemic was omicron that was so explosively contagious that 98+% of the world got it at the time. After that everyone had natural immunity that caused decreasing symptoms every subsequent time you got infected with a new variant.

Source?

There was a study in 2024 that researched what exactly lead to the sudden decline in Covid deaths [0]:

...suggest that a phase transition in the molecular structure of the COVID-19 spike protein made the virus less likely to cause severe infections.

[0] https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-ne... click on the link directly to the study. It's a .pdf.



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