The Making of an Endemic Disease

Signage for people to stay home is seen at Federation Square in downtown Melbourne, Australia, on Aug. 6, 2021, Con Chronis/AFP via Getty Images

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When does a pandemic end? How does a pandemic end? These were the questions I was asking myself after Megyn Kelly hosted Dr. Monica Gandhi on her podcast last week. As it turns out, sooner or later, we’ll have to admit that our COVID-19 pandemic is morphing into the endemic stage of the disease.