Covid-19 pandemic may shift to endemic in 2022, Moderna chair says

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MASSACHUSETTES, New England - The pandemic could start moving into an endemic phase in 2022, though countries will need to stay vigilant as the Omicron variant spreads, according to Moderna Inc co-fo

under Noubar Afeyan.

"2022 may be the year that the pandemic enters an endemic phase, but it really depends on what happens and the decisions that are made across the world," Afeyan said in a Bloomberg Television interview Friday with Francine Lacqua. Although Omicron is highly transmissible,"on the other hand it's having a lesser effect in terms of seriousness of disease," he said.

 

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