The reverse is also true, so that breaking this positive reinforcement can substantially reduce endemicity and increase the effectiveness of immunization programs, such that elimination of HBV can ...

But one way of thinking of it is that endemicity is what happens when the average infected person infects fewer than one other person. And that is not the case. With these new variants ...

Cases are ticking up again. A new variant is afoot. The challenge ahead is figuring out how to manage the transition to endemicity, however long it takes. COVID is not yet endemic because too many ...

Most scientists now expect the virus to circulate indefinitely with lower and more predictable case numbers — a status known as endemicity. That would make the coronavirus like many other ...

The coronavirus has evolved through four variants. “This pandemic did what pandemics usually do — settle into endemicity, which means constant vigilance on our part,” requiring ongoing ...

Interestingly, another question, whether endemicity is significant at all in the current context, is also cresting this wave of discussion among professionals, and might even take over the debate ...

Health Ministry spokesperson Siti Nadia Tarmizi said authorities were working together with independent epidemiologists and other experts to develop the so-called "road map to endemicity".

Their models suggest that current levels are likely to allow measles to return to endemicity in the United States in the next two decades, and faster if vaccination rates continue to decline.

“What’s different now is that mpox now is at what I call ‘hyperlow endemicity’—it has established itself at a very low level and hasn’t gone away,” Andrew Noymer, Ph.D., an ...

MALAYSIA’S shift into the endemic phase can be facilitated by several existing factors but the authorities must remain vigilant for potential outbreaks and keep the people informed, say health ...