{"id":225403,"date":"2021-01-15T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225403"},"modified":"2021-01-18T08:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:23:53","slug":"moderna-ceo-says-the-world-will-have-to-live-with-covid-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225403","title":{"rendered":"Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid \u2018forever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Berkeley Lovelace Jr. \u2013 CNBC Jan 13, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephane Bancel, CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna, warned Wednesday that the virus will be around \u201cforever.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will be present at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSARS-CoV-2 is not going away,\u201d Bancel said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan\u00a0Healthcare Conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=MRNA\">Moderna<\/a> warned Wednesday that the coronavirus that has brought world economies to a standstill and overwhelmed hospitals will be around \u201cforever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/10\/20\/covid-19-likely-to-become-as-endemic-as-flu.html\">an endemic disease<\/a>, meaning it will become present in communities at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel appeared to agree Wednesday that Covid-19 will become endemic, saying \u201cSARS-CoV-2 is not going away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to live with this virus, we think, forever,\u201d he said during a panel discussion at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=JPM\">JPMorgan<\/a>\u00a0Healthcare Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials will have to continuously watch for new variants of the virus, so scientists can produce vaccines to fight them, he said. Researchers in Ohio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/13\/us-covid-deaths-reach-another-record-as-researchers-find-two-new-variants-in-ohio.html\">said Wednesday<\/a> they\u2019ve discovered two new variants likely originating in the U.S. and that one of them quickly became the dominant strain in Columbus, Ohio, over a three-week period in late December and early January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/08\/pfizer-biontech-vaccine-appears-effective-against-mutation-in-new-strains.html\">Pfizer researchers said <\/a>its vaccine developed with BioNTech appeared to be effective against a key mutation in the U.K. strain as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/06\/south-africa-covid-strain-a-guide-to-what-you-need-to-know.html\">a variant found in South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moderna\u2019s vaccine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/12\/18\/moderna-covid-vaccine-approved-fda-for-emergency-use.html\">has been authorized<\/a>\u00a0by the Food and Drug Administration for use in Americans who are 18 years old and older.\u00a0Additional studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/11\/covid-vaccine-moderna-doesnt-expect-data-for-young-children-this-year.html\">still needed to be completed in children<\/a>, whose immune systems can respond differently to vaccines than those of adults.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/12\/covid-vaccine-trump-administration-to-expand-eligibility-to-everyone-65-and-older.html\">are racing to distribute doses<\/a> of both vaccines, but it will likely take months before the U.S. can vaccinate enough people to achieve herd immunity, meaning the virus won\u2019t have enough new hosts to spread.\u00a0Still, Bancel said Wednesday he expects the U.S. will be one of the first large countries to achieve \u201csufficient protection\u201d against the virus.<\/p>\n<p>There are already four coronaviruses that are endemic across the world, but they aren\u2019t as contagious or deadly as Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/13\/moderna-ceo-says-the-world-will-have-to-live-with-the-coronavirus-forever.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, that will also mean never ending revenue as the pharmaceutical giants profit from palliatives, as opposed to actual cures for Covid-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225403"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225415,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225403\/revisions\/225415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}