COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Five years after the start of the Covid pandemicthat killed more than one million Americans and shut down the world, health experts are really ready to say that it’s over - at least, for now.

After evolving through multiple variants, including omicron, the virus has become more consistent with an ‘endemic’ disease, they say

“This pandemic did what pandemics usually do — settle into endemicity, which means constant vigilance on our part,” requiring ongoing vaccination and surveillance to keep the virus under control, Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease expert at the University of California at San Francisco, told The Washington Post on Thursday.

The endemicity of Covid is largely agreed upon in the medical community, William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases and preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University, told the publication.……

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-pandemic-endemic-virus-b2714475.html