animals transmitting to humans, we just have to be mindful of the fact a new variant could emerge tomorrow. that could surprise us just like omicron did. so when does it possibly become not a pandemic but indemmic? well, you know, anderson, i m a card-carrying epidemiologist for 46 years. i ve written a lot of this in the medical inliterature. i don t know what it means. is it next few months relatively quiet and new variant emerges and omicron redo? what does that mean? i think what we have to be mindful of is we re not done with the virus yet. we need new and better vaccines. we need therapeutic drugs readily available to everyone around the world when they get infected. if we do things like that, no matter what variant emerges, we can take it off the table. we re not there yet and need to keep working on those to get to the point where we can say, you know, we can take care of this. and, you know, if we were doing
easier for people to remember. from public health perspective, it is an ideal situation. the world health organization is warning that it s dangerous to assume the omicron variant is the end of the coronavirus pandemic. it s asking nations to stay vigilant although some skype tises are hopeful the omicron variant could move 9 pandemic closer to an endemic stage. i m a card carrying epidemiologist of 46 years. i ve written a lot about this in the medical literature. i can t tell you, i don t know what endemic means. is it endemic if we go the next four months and a new variant emerges and we have an omicron redo? does that go from pandemic to endemic back to pandemic? they re just words. what we have to be mindful of, we are not done with this virus. we need to have therapeutic