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Physicians Warn that COVID-19 May Become Endemic, Even With a Vaccine

October 24, 2020

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Infectious disease experts have warned that the development of a COVID-19 vaccine may not preclude the coronavirus from becoming endemic, suggesting that people should begin to learn to live with the virus
The UK's chief scientific advisor, Patrick Vallance, told the National Security Strategy Committee in London ealier this week that COVID-19 was likely to become as endemic as the annual flu
This implies that the infection rate of the virus would stablize at a constant level and the infection will be present at all times in the communities
Hundreds of vaccine candidates are in clinical evaluation, with drugmakers and governments scrambling to approve a vaccine to prevent further spread of the infection
More than 41 million people have contracted the virus globally, with 1.13 million deaths, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University

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