President Joe Biden said this week that the COVID-19 pandemic is “over” -- but Boston doctors and Massachusetts public health data say otherwise.
"According to those very classic definitions, we are still in a pandemic and will be for a very, very long time," Doron said.
Brigham and Women's Chief of Infectious Diseases Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes echoed Doron, adding that the definitions of epidemic, pandemic and endemic are"clearly very blurry." Since case numbers across the U.S. are somewhat constant, Kuritzkes argued that COVID-19 is at least in an endemic phase, but that doesn't mean the virus has gone away.
"Now we're just hovering at this high plateau that is just so annoying, to be honest," Doron said."And the wastewater, which is a more accurate measure of what is going on with the virus, because cases by and large are not getting reported to the state, is also just stuck, just really stuck at a high level. So there's a lot of COVID out there. There's definitely a lot of COVID.
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