Sir Jeremy James Farrar—The Coronavirus Is Here to Stay. But, What's Next?
The below is a tweeter thread that Kai Kupferschmidt (a science journalist and molecular biologist) put together of the conversation between him and Sir Jeremy James Farrar (a British medical researcher and director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013) on a very important topic: At least in Europe, "what you're witnessing, I think at the moment is the shift from epidemic/pandemic state into an endemic state ”, Farrar said. “And none of us are really quite sure what that endemic state is going to look like.” Source: Yalemedicine.org Endemic State But what level of disease and death is deemed acceptable and thus what “endemic” looks like is going to differ from society to society. Farrar has been calling for an honest debate about this: “I think all countries are going to have to have this debate.” This goes far beyond Europe, of course. “If you are New Zealand, I don't know how you plot your exit from this” Farrar told me. “ China's in an even harder position...