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Government officials and the corporate media want to declare COVID-19 “endemic,” to enforce policies that will have disastrous consequences for the working class.
The COVID-19 pandemic is still a way off from endemicity due to the virus uncertainty and continued evolution, WHO scientist Dr Catherine Smallwood said at a news conference on Tuesday.