The word "endemic" has become quite the buzzword in recent weeks as the Omicron-fueled surge of infections, hospitalizations and deaths substantially decline in Indonesia, and while the government continues easing restrictions that have been in place since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago.

In broad terms, an illness becomes endemic when the rates become static in a given geographical location, meaning that the pathogen causing the disease is likely to remain in circulation without causing large outbreaks.

Many have associated COVID-19 endemicity as the end of the health crisis or a checkered flag that gives a clear line where restrictions disappear. But there is more to the term than what meets the eye.

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courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Nina A. Loasana (The Jakarta Post)

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