Endemic Covid-19 would not mean end of danger, warns WHO

The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned against the notion that the Covid-19 pandemic becoming endemic would mean the disease was no longer dangerous.“People talk about pandemic versus endemic,” the WHO’s emergencies director Michael Ryan told a virtual session of the World Economic Forum.“Endemic malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people; endemic HIV; endemic violence in our inner cities. Endemic in itself does not mean good – endemic just means it’s here forever,” Ryan told the…

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