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Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:30 am, February 13th, 2021 - 84 comments
Back in May, I wrote a post “Covid-19: may be endemic” in which I said
Like measles, covid-19 could become endemic. Never dying out entirely. Needing to be controlled in human denser populations into the indefinite future.
and
That is where I think that this disease will wind up. If I had to bet, and assuming a vaccine, I’d say this will eventually be more prevalent than measles, and less frequent outbreaks than the annual flu. It will be endemic.
That certainly seems to be where this virus is heading. Vaccinating the worlds population to the point that the disease can’t find human hosts to spread to increasingly seems unlikely.