From what I understand, this current pattern of world cases *is* what ‘endemic’ Covid may look like? Baseline…

From what I understand, this current pattern of world cases *is* what ‘endemic’ Covid may look like? Baseline (here about 40 cases per million) being the endemic level of virus in the community, with then repeated epidemic waves? /1 #covid19aus @RealOzSAGE https://t.co/IaH19wNYeK

The welcoming of endemicity projects a rosy Covid future, where burden of disease will be ‘like the flu’. But have we already arrived at what Covid endemicity would look like, right now, with these repeated waves of debilitating infection? /end