Many researches do believe that we will end up with, says covy too, becoming an endemic virus. The question is, what will that intimacity look like exactly? I mean, i think a lot of public health measures are really important. And i i think people are forgetting that people will die on the way to reaching endimicity and that this is somehow an acceptable sacrifice.
The word endemic is often mistakenly used to describe a rosy end to the pandemic where COVID-19 becomes a mild, but ever-present infection akin to the common cold. But this is by no means guaranteed and the reality could be much less favourable. In this episode of Coronapod we get the evolutionary virologist's take - asking what endemicity might really look like, and what control we still have in shaping the future of SARS-CoV-2.World View: COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmlessSubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.
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