In a February survey of more than 100 immunologists, infectious-disease researchers and virologists, almost 90% said that SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid, will become endemic.
That means that there’s a “constant presence and/or usual prevalence of a disease or infectious agent in a population within a geographic area,” according to the Centers for Disease Control. Influenza, for example, is an endemic respiratory illness in the U.S., and there are four other endemic types of coronaviruses that cause the common cold.
Erica Ollmann Saphire, professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, says she thinks Covid will be “a permanent part of the human existence.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/27/what-if-covid-becomes-endemic.html
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