SAN FRANCISCO: "There’s growing talk in the medical community that the COVID-19 pandemic may soon be entering the “endemic” phase. “What an endemic phase of a viral infections means is that it’s not causing the terrible hospitalizations of the pandemic phase but that we’ll have enough immunity of a population so it’s kept down to low levels,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor at the University of California, San Francisco. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is predicting that it will happen in a month.
Exhausted after two years of the pandemic, many are wondering what exactly life will look like when we officially reach endemicity. “We will likely not be masking, distancing, contact tracing, doing asymptomatic testing,” Dr. Gandhi said.
Dr. Gandhi says the highly transmissible omicron variant could drive the pandemic into endemicity. “There’s [an] incredible number of cases in both vaccinated and unvaccinated. What that does is it exposes you to the entire virus and you develop antibodies, T cells and B cells across the entire virus,” Dr. Gandhi said."
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