[MEDIUM THREAD] On the topic of covid becoming an endemic virus. You hear this a lot; sometimes in response to critiques against strategies of elimination, sometimes just as a statement in its on right. Statements such as “Covid will inevitally become endemic.” 1/n https://t.co/Isjm1ENnMj

— Aris Katzourakis 💙 (for UCU NEC) (@ArisKatzourakis) February 11, 2021

No chance of Covid not going endemic, even if you use this strict definition (which is not what every epidemiologist uses, btw) or a less strict one. Some do consider AIDS endemic, too.