COVID-19 unlikely to become endemic, epidemiologist says
The strategy should be to produce better vaccines and maintain high vaccination rates, says Professor Raina MacIntyre
COVID-19 will never become an endemic disease and will continue to cause outbreaks in pockets of under-vaccinated and unvaccinated people for years to come, a leading epidemiologist predicts.
Professor Raina MacIntyre suggests, however, that health authorities should still be able to control the spread of the virus and treat it like measles, which was officially eliminated in Australia in 2014 but still causes occasional outbreaks.
