The coronavirus conundrum - From pandemic to endemic COVID-19 – Should we continue taking care of ourselves?

Abstract

It seems that things are calming down with SARS-Cov-2, as there are no longer daily
reports and notes of findings of new variants and subvariants of the virus, as well
as clinical changes in symptomatology, hospitalizations, severity, and deaths due to
COVID-19. We do not know how we should guard against viral infection during the
impending endemic phase of the disease, knowing the complex health problems of
prolonged COVID if we contract the virus. In this article we describe the latest known
coronavirus mutations, how they affect certain organs and systems, the advantage
of a better response to infection in people with healthy lifestyle, the rebound of
symptomatology, reinfections at the time of the vaccine, prolonged COVID, excess
mortality of physicians who attended the first waves without vaccine, and some news
and knowledge about COVID in the pregnant woman and her fetus and newborn; the
future of the newborn born to a mother with COVID remains unknown. In the COVID
endemic, should we continue to protect ourselves? How?