For months, some American and European leaders have foretold that the coronavirus pandemic would soon become endemic. COVID-19 would resolve into a disease that we learn to live with. According to several governors, it nearly has.
When people think of endemic disease, they often think of the common cold. Upper respiratory infections, including colds, are estimated to infect billions of people worldwide every year but kill several thousand. Other endemic diseases can be much more lethal. Malaria killed more than 600,000 people globally in 2019, and flu killed more than 200,000, though estimates suggest these tolls could be much higher.
The common cold and the flu are widespread endemic diseases that persist year round, but their levels are not constant. Instead they cause seasonal epidemics, where infections rise beyond baseline endemic levels, often in the winter when people gather indoors. HIV, which has persisted across the globe for more than 40 years, is one example, though scientists and public health workers use both “epidemic” and “endemic” to describe the virus.
Among the many forms endemic disease can take, one thing is clear: Endemic does not mean the end of the disease. Measles, for example, remained endemic in the United States for 40 years after the introduction of vaccines. During that period, unvaccinated people remained vulnerable, fueling occasional outbreaks. In 2019, two decades after the disease was declared eliminated in the United States, several outbreaks, many associated with unvaccinated travelers, infected more than a thousand people.
It IS endemic. Has been for months. Safe distancing measures have now nothing to do with saving lives but everything to do with government addicted to tracking & control.
oh? it's still not endemic?
At its most basic, an endemic disease is one with a constant, predictable or expected presence. It’s a disease that persists. Beyond that, there is no fixed definition.
Some people on here will have nothing left to talk about.
It is already
Nothing.
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