Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned.
"This is why we need an ongoing 'vaccine-plus' and ventilation strategy, to keep R below 1 so we can live with the virus without major disruptions to society," MacIntyre said, adding a warning that "there will be more variants coming.
"[Covid] will never be endemic," the organization argued. "It is an epidemic disease and always will be. This means it will find unvaccinated or under-vaccinated people and spread rapidly in those groups."According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an epidemic occurs when the number of cases of a disease increases, often suddenly, above what is usually expected.
Endemic disease is defined as "the constant presence or usual prevalence of a disease or infectious agent in a population within a geographic area"
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