Former FDA commissioner predicts COVID-19 pandemic will become an endemic after Delta variant spread

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said on Friday that he believes the coronavirus pandemic will morph into an endemic.

A pandemic is classified by the World Health Organization as a fast-spreading disease outbreak that covers wide swaths of the world. An endemic is an outbreak in particular regions that's always present but far easier to predict and control, like the common cold or malaria.

"We're transitioning from this being a pandemic to being more of an endemic virus, at least here in the United States and probably other western markets," Gottlieb said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

Still, Gottlieb warned that other parts of the world will continue to have difficulty containing the coronavirus. "There's still going to be a pandemic in a lot of parts of the world where you don't have high vaccination rates," he said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/former-fda-commissioner-predicts-covid-19-pandemic-will-become-an-endemic-after-delta-variant-spread/ar-AANjO0o

[cilla4progress]

1. Similar opinion in very good article in the Atlantic

last week by Ed Yong. Here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/delta-has-changed-pandemic-endgame/619726/

[Bleacher Creature]

3. I think Ed Yong is the gold standard for reporting on the pandemic.

I remember him writing an article at the very beginning of the pandemic that put everything in perspective and did a great job predicting how this all would play out.

Thanks for sharing!

[cilla4progress]

4. Agreed.

And really like the writing in the Atlantic - intelligent!

[stillcool]

5. thanks...good read!

[czarjak]

2. Hoax, though?

[marie999]

6. If other parts of the world still has difficulty containing the coronavirus won't it mutate?

And how do we keep the mutations from getting here?