Fauci offers long-term view on COVID-19: the worst may be over in terms of omicron

Infectious disease experts say the hope is that COVID-19 will turn into something akin to the common cold or flu.

"Then we’ll have to incorporate it into what we do with other respiratory pathogens and live with it," said infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Ghandi of UCSF Health."That we don’t know, if we’re going to need recurrent Covid vaccinations," said Ghandi.

"What it means in the endemic phase is that we take out the pandemic measures. We take out asymptomatic testing. We likely won’t be telling people to mask. Certainly mask if you want to, but that won't be mandated," said Dr. Ghandi."Finally, therapeutics is one of the most important parts of endemic management, and we need more oral antivirals to help anyone who’s declined to vaccinate," added Ghandi."That’s what Dr. Fauci was talking about today.

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