Not what we want to hear, but...
That’s the grim reality that Mike Ryan, emergencies director for the World Health Organization, said Wednesday during a coronavirus briefing.
“It is important to put this on the table: This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” he said. “I think it is important we are realistic and I don’t think anyone can predict when this disease will disappear. I think there are no promises in this and there are no dates. This disease may settle into a long problem, or it may not be.”
At the same briefing, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO’s director-general, said social distancing was still the best way to control the spread of the coronavirus, for now.
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