Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said Jan. 13 that COVID-19 will be around forever, reported CNBC.
Mr. Bancel's remark echoes warnings from public health officials and infectious disease experts that COVID-19 will become an endemic disease, according to CNBC. As Becker's reported previously, an analysis published Jan. 12 in Science said that once COVID-19 becomes endemic, it may be no more virulent than the common cold.
He added that health officials will need to watch for new variants of the virus to produce new vaccines effective against them, wrote CNBC.
"SARS-CoV-2 is not going away," Mr. Bancel said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, according to CNBC.
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