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Q: Many experts have said they expect COVID-19 to become an endemic disease. How does a disease go from being acute to endemic? What factors shape the transition to endemicity? What’s a likely timeline for COVID-19 to become endemic?
A: The expectation that COVID-19 will become endemic essentially means that the pandemic will not end with the virus disappearing; instead, the optimistic view is that enough people will gain immune protection from vaccination and from natural infection such that there will be less transmission and much less COVID-19-related hospitalization and death, even as the virus continues to circulate.
What will it be like when COVID-19 becomes endemic?
In a Q&A, Yonatan Grad, Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, discusses what endemic COVID-19 will look like.
www.hsph.harvard.edu
Opinion | Accept It: COVID Will Be an Endemic Virus
Everyone will meet with the virus eventually, but doing so safely (while vaccinated) is key
www.medpagetoday.com
Opinion | Covid Will Soon Be Endemic, Thank Goodness
Widespread immunity, vaccinated and natural, will bring control and a full return to normal.
www.wsj.com
Witness large numbers of people who attend sporting events such as the Super Bowl, masks being a rare sight.
The pandemic is over. The people have declared it so with their actions, which speak very much louder than words.
The government's expanded powers, justified by the pandemic, will need to be rescinded, this is the reality, and this is what drives those who want more government power to adopt the COVID-Zero mentality.