The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said late on Wednesday. “It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan told an online briefing. “This disease may settle into a long problem, or it may not be.”
The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said late on Wednesday. “It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan told an online briefing. “This disease may settle into a long problem, or it may not be.”