An NHS doctor has said that the covid pandemic could end this year and become an endemic, in line with the view of an expert in infectious diseases.
According to Yonatan Grad, Melvin J. and Geraldine L. Glimcher Associate Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard, the expectation is that "covid will become endemic essentially means that the pandemic will not end with the virus disappearing."
"Instead, the optimistic view is that enough people will gain immune protection from vaccination and from natural infection such that there will be less transmission and much less covid related hospitalisation and death, even as the virus continues to circulate."
