For those counting on the COVID-19 vaccine to end the pandemic, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel has some sorry news: “SARS-CoV-2 is not going away. We are going to live with this virus, we think, forever,” Bancel said in a panel discussion at a health care conference.
Bancel isn’t alone in his thinking that no vaccine is going to send COVID packing. “Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that COVID-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will become present in communities at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now,” CNBC said.
SOURCE: CNBC January 13, 2021