NEW DELHI : The coronavirus pandemic is likely to reach the endemic stage in the United States, a study has suggested.
The statement was made based on a modelling study conducted in rats. The researchers at the Yale School of Medicine in the US studied rats, which, like humans, are also susceptible to coronaviruses, to better understand when the Covid pandemic will get over.
Over the past two years, scientists have come to see that SARS-CoV-2 yields non-sterilising immunity. People who have been infected or vaccinated are still at risk of reinfection.
So experts expect that the virus won't go away any time soon. "Coronaviruses are very unpredictable, so there could be a mutation that makes it more pathogenic," said Zeiss. "The more likely scenario, though, is that we see an increase in transmissibility and probable decrease in pathogenicity," she added.