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Strange article. Endemic: (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area. Article: “There are only two paths that ca
by ekanes 5y ago
Strange article.
Endemic: (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
Article: “There are only two paths that can get us to endemic status: mass infection, along with the illness and deaths that entails. Or mass vaccination.”
It’s already endemic.
- titzer 5y agoSeriously. It's not like "endemic" means harmless--it has absolutely no bearing on the symptoms, severity, or survivability. The word literally just means commonplace. The term "herd immunity" fell out of fashion pretty quick, so now they are shooting for merely endemic.
- scottiebarnes 5y agoIt does mean exponential/rapid growth spikes are less likely, which means hospital resources are less likely to be strained, which is generally better for health workers, covid patients, and general society.
- yayachiken 5y agoMany of the definitions I found so far explicitly include that to reach an "endemic state", the reproduction number of a disease must be around 1. This implies that local outbreaks may still happen but will eventually burn out with no additional intervention, which characterizes the endemic state. I don't think it is fair to attack an article on semantics.