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Westergaard: COVID-19 still a pandemic
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Dr. Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer of the Bureau of Communicable Diseases for the Department of Health Services, isn’t ready to label COVID-19 an endemic virus - a term he said most epidemiologists reserve for something that’s reached a steady state or is predictable.