For all the reasons I cited above, we are not going to “stop this strain”. Covid is endemic. It is not going away. It doesn’t meet any of the standards set up

For all the reasons I cited above, we are not going to “stop this strain”. Covid is endemic. It is not going away. It doesn’t meet any of the standards set up by the WHO for eradication, and even if it did, it would take decades of intensive work, on par with what we’ve been doing for polio.