The CEO of Moderna, which is developing a vaccine against the Coronavirus, has warned that the virus will exist forever.
According to Arabiya Net, public health officials and infectious disease experts said that there is a high probability that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, which means that it will be present in all Times though it is likely to be at lower levels than it is now.
Public health officials and infectious disease experts said that there is a high probability that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, which means that it will be present in societies at all times, despite It is likely to be at lower levels than it is now.
It appears Moderna's CEO, Stephane Bansel, agrees that COVID-19 will become endemic, saying SARS-CoV-2 will not disappear. According to CNBC.
he said during a panel discussion at the JP Morgan Healthcare conference: I think we'll live with this virus, forever.
He added: Health officials will have to constantly monitor new types of the virus, so that scientists can produce vaccines to combat them.
On Wednesday, researchers in Ohio discovered two new variants that may have originated in the United States and that one of them quickly became the dominant dynasty in Columbus, Ohio, over a period of three Weeks in late December and early January.
Pfizer researchers said their vaccine, which was developed using mRNA technology with Biontech, appears to be effective against a major mutation in the UK strain in addition to one of the species found in South Africa. .
and Moderna is licensed by the Food and Drug Administration for use in Americans 18 years of age or older. Additional studies are still needed in children, whose immune systems may respond to vaccines differently from those of adults.
US officials are racing to distribute doses of both vaccines, but it will probably take months before the United States can vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity, which means The virus will not have enough new hosts to spread.
However, Bansel said Wednesday that he expects the United States to be among the first large countries to achieve adequate protection against the virus.