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Pandemic rapidly moving towards endemicity, says European Medicines Agency

• greenyoda 5y ago
  > "The coronavirus pandemic is rapidly moving toward becoming endemic, according to the European Medicines Agency" But on the very same page, we have exactly the opposite opinion from the WHO: > It is too soon to say the coronavirus is moving into an endemic phase, a World Health Organization official has warned. “Endemicity assumes that there’s stable circulation of the virus, at predictable levels with predictable waves of transmission… that doesn’t rely on external forces being placed in order to maintain that stability,” Catherine Smallwood said at a press conference on Tuesday. “But what we’re seeing at the moment, coming into 2022, is nowhere near that. We can’t just sit back and see a stable rate of transmission.”