“Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel appeared to agree Wednesday that Covid-19 will become endemic, saying “SARS-CoV-2 is not going away.”
“We are going to live with this virus, we think, forever,” he said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference.”
Endemic: (of a disease or condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area. An infection is said to be endemic in a population when that infection is constantly maintained at a baseline level in a geographic area without external inputs.