Health
COVID-19 likely to become ‘endemic’ like annual flu, says UK Chief Scientist – Sydney Morning Herald
Sir Patrick Vallance warns a truly sterilising vaccine that eradicates the virus is unlikely and the disease will continue to circulate.
“We can’t be certain, but I think it’s unlikely we will end up with a truly sterilising vaccine, something that completely stops infection, and it’s likely this disease will circulate and be endemic.
“And this starts to look more like annual flu than anything else and that may be the direction we end up going.”
Vallance said that as management and treatments became better, combined with the vaccine, that the chance of infection would reduce as well as its severity.
He reminded MPs that there …
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