Will Covid-19 become an endemic disease, and what does endemic mean? Public-health and infectious-disease experts talk about the path beyond the pandemic
will be dealing with Covid-19Instead, the disease will likely become endemic, meaning Covid-19 would continue to circulate among the population more predictably.
The disease could eventually becomelike the flu or colds, common ailments that are less destructive and deadly than Covid-19 is now, virologists and epidemiologists say. The virus’s long-term foothold in society depends on factors including vaccination coverage and how it continues to evolve. The emergence of the B.1.1.529 variant, also known as the Omicron variant, has already shown the virus can evolve unpredictably.
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