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Endemic doesn't mean the pandemic is over, just that it isn't going away

• lborsato 5y ago
  Actually it literally does. A pandemic is a geographically spread epidemic. If a disease is endemic then it is not epidemic, and therefore cannot be a pandemic as per the accepted definition.
  • officialjunk 5y ago
    then why isn't the whole world taking off masks? also to quote the transcript "The pandemic is still here. We're not at the endemic phase yet. But I do think we're transitioning, and I think it's a good roadmap."
    • jka 5y ago
      It can still be sensible to wear face coverings to reduce the spread of communicable diseases, pandemic or otherwise. That said, for many people this has been their first experience of it as guidance and/or a habit.