Public health officials and infectious disease experts have previously said that there is a high probability that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, which means it will appear around the community all the time even though it may be at a lower level than it is now.
So far, there are four viruses that are endemic worldwide, but are not contagious or can cause death like Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The chief executive officer (CEO) of Covid-19 Moderna vaccine maker Stephane Bancel seems to agree with the statement, in which he says the coronavirus epidemic will not go away and we will live with this virus forever.
Health officials need to continue to control new variants of the virus, so that scientists can produce vaccines that can really fight it, he added.
On Wednesday, researchers in Ohio said they had discovered two new variants that may have originated in the U.S. and one of them became a rapidly dominant strain in Columbus, in just three weeks.
The Moderna vaccine has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in Americans 18 years of age and older. Additional studies still need to be conducted on children, whose immune systems are able to respond differently to vaccines than adults.
Meanwhile, Pfizer researchers claim that the vaccine they developed with BioNTech, is effective against new variants detected in the UK as well as variants in South Africa.
