Top Virologist Declares COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over

Top Virologist Declares COVID-19 Pandemic Is Over
A health care professional prepares to enter a COVID-19 patient's room in a file photo. Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images
Jack Phillips
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A top German virologist declared this week that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, saying the virus has moved into the endemic phase.

“We are experiencing the first endemic wave with Sars-CoV-2 this winter; in my estimation the pandemic is over,” Dr. Christian Drosten, the head of virology at Berlin’s Charite University Hospital, was quoted by DW.com as saying. He was referring to the virus that causes COVID-19.
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