COVID-19 Evolution in the Post-Vaccination Phase: Endemic or Extinct?

FERNÁNDEZ, ARIEL

ACS Pharmacology and Translational Science

American Chemical Society

Año: 2021 vol. 4 p. 403 - 405

This piece addresses the urge to assess the evolutionary fate of SARS-CoV-2 in a post-vaccination phase. The possibilities of COVID-19 becoming endemic or extinct are weighed against verifiable properties of extant vaccines and observed genetic trends already apparent under the mild selection pressure exerted almost exclusively by social rules.