i thought, well, let's see if we can take a broader perspective. Let's see what an evolutionary birologist would have to say about what does this really mean? And so ariscozracus had written a very articulate twitter thread that a colleague had forwarded to me. So i asked him if he'd talk with me with an eye to writing a column. One of the first things he said to me was that there are many, many routes to endemicity. There are many places where being endemic can fall, and a lot of them are not good.
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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