Experts believe coronavirus is becoming an “endemic” disease, a leading epidemiologist has said.
Professor David Heymann, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, was asked on the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme if people were going to have to “learn to live with” coronavirus circulating.
Prof Heymann replied: “It certainly seems like that in the shorter term, and probably in the long term as well.
“Most experts believe that this disease is now becoming endemic, but the good thing is that we have many tools including vaccines with which we can deal with this virus.”
Drawing a comparison with the spread of HIV/Aids, he added: “We’ve learned to live with it, as we’ll learn to live with this infection as well.”
