Insight - Endemicity and the economy, the dance in disease control

Considering the Malaysian prevalence of disease lies somewhere between 10% and 20% of the population, fully vaccinating the population is unlikely to terminate transmission of Covid-19 in the near future.

IT has been 611 days since Covid-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China. As disasters go, Covid-19 has been truly unprecedented.

The initial response that utilised aggressive public health and social measures (PHSM) has been framed as a trade-off between lives and livelihood.