An infectious disease expert and White House adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has warned once morest getting too hopeful regarding eradicating the novel coronavirus or determining when it will become an endemic disease.
Fauci said in a statement to the World Economic Forum, Most notably, the Fortune website. The world is still in the first stage of five stages of the epidemic, and the other stages are slowing down, controlling, eliminating the disease, and then eradicating it.
Fauci said the first stage of a “real” epidemic is “when the whole world is affected very negatively, as we are now.”
Control means, according to Fortune, that the disease will be integrated into a wide range of infectious diseases, such as influenza and colds, and according to Fauci: “This means that the virus is present, but in a way that does not disrupt society.”
In response to a question regarding whether he expects Covid-19 to be endemic or not in 2022: “The answer is we don’t know.”
For Covid-19 to become endemic, there should be no surprises in terms of transmission or virulence of the virus and the emergence of new variants, according to Lawrence Young, a virologist who spoke to the site and said, “I don’t think there is anything predictable regarding the Corona virus.”
The report says that some believe that natural immunity will lead to a decrease in the number of new cases, but Fauci says it is too early to know, and there may always be a new mutant coming.
He said, “It is an open question regarding whether “Omicron” is the live vaccine once morest the virus that everyone is hoping for, because there is a great deal of variance with the emergence of new variants.”
And the elimination of the pandemic means that the virus will be present, but it has been eliminated in certain regions or countries, and Fauci gives an example of polio, which has been eliminated in many countries in the north of the globe.
It is almost impossible to reach the eradication stage, and Fauci says that smallpox is the only infectious human disease that has been completely eradicated, but this “will not happen with Covid-19.”
