Why the future of Covid is now harder to predict

The question of how the pandemic will be felt in 2023 is in some ways impossible to answer

A biochemist looks at Covid-19 samples
A biochemist looks at Covid-19 samples at a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Image credit: Amilcar Orfali/Getty Images)

Duncan Robertson, senior lecturer in management sciences at Loughborough University, on Covid-19 trends in 2023 and beyond.

In 2020, we knew very little about the novel virus that was to become known as Covid-19. Now, as we enter 2023, a search of Google Scholar produces around five million results containing the term.

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