Feasibility of coronavirus disease 2019 eradication.

In addition to the insufficient public health service, a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), lack of protective awareness, and gathering of people for various reasons all posed considerable threats to public health during this outbreak and led to a devastating loss of the global economy Based on the current estimates of the proportion of severe and critical cases (about 15%) and the death rate (about 2%, or even higher) of COVID-19 in the general population,[7] the amount of associated morbidity and mortality would be staggering if this “herd immunity” strategy becomes a reality;its scope would far exceed the 2009 A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza pandemic, which was characterized by highly transmissible disease with a rapid spread and is estimated to have caused 123,000 to 203,000 deaths [ ]the success in China provides hope that COVID-19 could be the first pandemic human infectious disease to be eradicated by scientific management and effective control tactics