Moderna CEO says that we’re going to be living with COVID-19 ‘forever’

[Chris Smith]

• The coronavirus will never disappear, Moderna CEO Stephan Bancel said during a panel earlier this week. “We are going to live with this virus, we think, forever,” he said.
• Separately, a new study that modeled the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic said that the illness would indeed become endemic, but the virus “may be no more virulent than the common cold.”
• The researchers said that COVID-19 infections would occur primarily during childhood, which could lead to prolonged protection against severe cases in adulthood, even if reinfection will still be possible. The only caveat is that the initial childhood version of the illness has to be mild.

We heard this prediction early in the pandemic from WHO researchers and Dr. Anthony Fauci. The novel coronavirus isn’t likely to be eradicated, no matter how effective vaccines are. Instead, we’ll have to learn to live with the illness as it transitions from the pandemic to the endemic phase. The same thing happened with the flu and other infectious diseases that circulate and lead to outbreaks. But vaccines and improved therapies have significantly reduced the fatality rate of those illnesses.

Moderna CEO Stephan Bancel repeated the same prediction earlier this week. The world will have to live with COVID-19 “forever.” But that’s not as scary as it sounds, and a study proposes that the novel coronavirus illness might one day be as harmless as a common cold caused by some of its siblings.

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