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When I think about this I think of two parts of it. First, there are other endemics. Influenza is one of them. In the US along millions get sick from it and te
by mfer 5y ago
When I think about this I think of two parts of it.
First, there are other endemics. Influenza is one of them. In the US along millions get sick from it and tens of thousands die each year. We live within that realm.
There will be people with different degrees of risk and levels for being ok with going back to "normal" as COVID-19 is just out there. How do we decided (as groups in the world population) what we are ok with?
Second, what do we do to proactively push the population towards endemic? Different groups will go toward different things with different levels of risk. There is no quantitative right answer. What things can we do and how does that affect things.
- meheleventyone 5y agoFor me before we can even talk about covid being endemic it needs to reach a steady state and we're nowhere near that right now. In terms of risk management flu is a good example because most humans encounter various versions in childhood but we still offer vaccination every year against the most likely variants. And we can still have flu pandemics. It's largely in a steady state though but the reality of that means we actually need to do a lot of management as risk profiles change locally. And largely this is a medical issue not a political one.
- marcosdumay 5y ago> Second, what do we do to proactively push the population towards endemic? Vaccinate people.