The word endemic is often mistakenly used to describe a rosy end to the pandemic where COVID-19 becomes a mild, but ever-present infection akin to the common cold. But this is by no means guaranteed and the reality could be much less favourable. In this episode of Coronapod we get the evolutionary virologist’s take – asking what endemicity might really look like, and what control we still have in shaping the future of SARS-CoV-2.

World View: COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless

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