Does 'learning to live with COVID' mean returning to life like it was in 2019?

Ontarians have recently started hearing their top health and government officials speak of "learning to live with COVID-19," but what does that mean?

Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, is now using the phrase, as are Toronto's top doctor, Ontario's health minister and Premier Doug Ford.

Shifting from the predominant message of "stay home" to "learn to live with it" is going to be difficult for a lot of people, said Dr. Anna Banerji, a professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

"We all have collective trauma -- all of the world has, to some degree, collective trauma -- for the past few years," she said.

"I think it will be a hardship for people. People are terrified of getting it. And a lot of people are doing all the right things."