This will be me....

(This will be me I am sure of it....staying in until an antibody test is widespread or a vaccine)

Your questions, answered

“I'm in the really high-risk group. I've heard that even China has not reached herd immunity. So will I have to continue social distancing until a vaccine is found?”  — Faith Markle in Madison, Wis.

No one knows for sure — and more is being learned about the virus each day — but right now distancing is the only tool health officials have to protect people from the disease.

“Without a vaccine or a drug to stop infections, the best hope is to break the chain of transmission one infection at a time,” Post science reporter Joel Achenbach wrote in a rundown of everything we know about the disease. Left to its own devices, the coronavirus is very contagious, but strict quarantine measures, such as those China imposed, can effectively reduce or stop it from spreading within a population. But until a vaccine is developed — “likely to take a year or more” — there is no guarantee the virus won't take off again when quarantines are relaxed.