WASHINGON – 18 December 2021: Covid will become an endemic disease as early as 2024, CNBC quoted Pfizer executives as saying Friday.
Becoming an endemic means that the virus would transition from a global emergency to a constant presence causing regional outbreaks across the world — much like the flu.
“We believe Covid will transition to an endemic state, potentially by 2024,” Nanette Cocero, global president of Pfizer Vaccines, said during an investor call Friday.
Covid-19 would reach the endemic level when populations have enough immunity from vaccines or from prior infections to keep transmissions, hospitalizations and deaths under control even as the virus circulates.
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