So which is it: is the COVID pandemic winding down and becoming endemic, or will a highly lethal coronavirus be with us forever?

Doctors and scientists have been saying COVID will eventually become endemic......meaning the virus is still there, still circulating but it's manageable---nowhere near as rampant and deadly as it is now.

But one biosecurity expert in Australia say COVID will never get to that point. It'll remain an epidemic. She says it's because there are large rapid rises in case numbers.

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