UK experts warn the virus is here to stay – endemic

On July 21, 2020, in an address to the House of Commons’ Health Committee, Wellcome Trust Director Sir Jeremy Farrar, stated that although progress has been made, there is no chance of this year’s holiday being like the last. [1]

“This infection is not going away, it’s now a human endemic infection,”…”Even, actually, if we have a vaccine or very good treatments, humanity will still be living with this virus for very many, many years…[Even] decades to come,” said Jeremy Farrar

“The reality is that this pathogen is here forever, [and] it isn’t going anywhere,” said Sir John Bell, University of Oxford