Guys...come on!
There is no scientist that has worked on this virus that thinks it is ever going away and it is entirely the opposite. This thing is mutating very rapidly - far more so than any laboratory could ever hope to achieve. The vaccines are reducing the pool of hosts to provide mutations for if anything. It is an ideal virus for humans.
We must remember that viruses in the past have been constrained by limited access to hosts. I.E. if this virus had emerged in 1850 it very well may have burned out - possibly. But given the 21st century access - well in other words 150 years ago a virus may have had a hard time going from one village to another given the time and distance required, whereas today it can be in any city within a day. Think about that. It used to take weeks to get anywhere, and now it takes hours.
We've never had a nasty virus like this in a global modernized world where "Earth" is comparable to a few villages (how a virus sees it). And that can spread this easily. I mean if Ebola was this transmittal we'd have simply bombed the villages where it was and called it a day - for the sake of Earths population.
Most hope it simply mutates into a less lethal strain and becomes much like a common cold, endemic, but not too much of a concern. The only thing that is squandering this hope is that it seems to be getting more lethal and it is not behaving as we had hoped.
We really are going to need to see it infect the majority of the worlds population and roll through it to see where it will go. My guess is it's going to jump species and gain material from other hosts (like swine) and come back and bite us in the ass, and then it will die down into less lethal strains which will be of little concern. I think this is likely, but is opinion.
What is not helping is that it is lethal - but not small enough not to worry, and not great enough that it creates terror. I mean, if it was 0.1% then fine, we live with it like the cold, but if it were 5% lethal then gaining public support would be easy. It is in the Goldilocks zone at the moment which makes it a sneaky little shit. You can't panic, but you can't not panic.
