| Title | Endemic SARS-CoV-2 will maintain post-pandemic immunity. | ||
| Author | Veldhoen, Marc; Simas, J Pedro | ||
| Journal | Nat Rev Immunol | Publication Year/Month | 2021-Mar |
| PMID | 33402727 | PMCID | PMC7784621 |
| Affiliation + expend | 1.Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Joao Lobo Antunes, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. marc.veldhoen@medicina.ulisboa.pt. | ||
COVID-19 vaccinations have started. They will stop the pandemic. Citing recent data that are in line with immunological knowledge and predictions, combined with insights of common cold coronaviruses, we here set out the case that the maintenance of population immunity will not depend on continued vaccinations but on the endemic presence of SARS-CoV-2.