COVID as endemic disease: Not weaker but forever with us | Inquirer

CEID Faculty Dr. Ellie Murray weighs in on COVID and endemicity:

“…According to Boston University epidemiologist Eleanor Murray, an infectious disease can be classified to be in the endemic phase if the rate of infections has more or less stabilized through the years. ‘A disease is endemic if the reproductive number is stably at one. That means one infected person, on average, infects one other person. Right now, we are nowhere near that. Each person who’s infected is infecting more than one person,’ Murray said in an interview with Vox Media…”

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