The director of the World Well being Group mentioned this week that "the top is in sight" for the coronavirus pandemic. CBS Information medical contributor Dr. David Agus mentioned though he believes the U.S. is "on the finish of the pandemic," COVID-19 is just not essentially "over."
"I do assume COVID-19 goes to proceed," Agus informed "CBS Mornings" on Friday. "It isn't going to be a pandemic that shuts issues down. We'll dwell with the virus. We're not going to cover from it. Individuals are nonetheless going to get it."
The doctor mentioned booster photographs and Pfizer's Paxlovid capsule will assist hold folks from dying or being hospitalized from the virus.
"We'll must get used to testing after we really feel sick and staying residence," he mentioned. "That is our common cadence for the following couple years."
He inspired folks to develop into totally vaccinated in opposition to COVID in the event that they have not but, including that it's secure to combine booster doses and that doing so supplies a "bump in immunity."
And with flu season approaching, Agus additionally urged folks to get their flu photographs.
"For 2 years — 40 million folks usually get [the flu] a yr — they did not, so we've got much less immunity to the flu," he mentioned.
He additionally pushed for extra monkeypox vaccines to be supplied to communities the place the virus is spreading.
"It is nonetheless on this inhabitants of people, homosexual males predominantly," Agus mentioned. "We have to get extra vaccines to them, and in the event that they do get it, we have to deal with them as a result of we've got remedies that work, so monkeypox, sadly, it is unfold like wildfire, however now it is getting underneath management."