Despite omicron, Covid-19 will become endemic. Here’s how. | Vox

CEID Faculty Dr. Ellie Murray talks about how COVID-19 will become endemic in Vox.

“For an infectious disease to be classed in the endemic phase, the rate of infections has to more or less stabilize across years, rather than showing big, unexpected spikes as Covid-19 has been doing. ‘A disease is endemic if the reproductive number is stably at one,’ Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray explained. ‘That means one infected person, on average, infects one other person.’

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