Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?

Re:Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic? by guscost on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:39PM (#24803088)

There is plenty of evidence to support the idea that as it becomes endemic, it will evolve toward yet-another-cold. There is no evidence in all of history for an endemic coronavirus that is not yet-another-cold.

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4361674/#!po=0....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873896/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC136581/

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Re:Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic? by johnchristopher on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:24PM (#24803552)

I am clueless but I'd like to ask: when you say "it will evolve toward yet-another-cold"... does it mean it'll be as harmless as the common cold or as common as the common cold but as dangerous as covid19 ?

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Re:Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic? by rusk on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:48PM (#24803793)

Benign enough to spread without concern

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