Pandemic is likely to persist for up to two years, report from infectious-disease center says

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• The  pandemic is likely to last as long as two years and won’t be controlled until about two-thirds of the world’s population is immune, says a report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "Because of its ability to spread from people who don’t appear to be ill, the virus may be harder to control than influenza, the cause of most pandemics in recent history," Bloomberg News reports."People may actually be at their most infectious before symptoms appear, according to the report."