CDC recommends reformulated coronavirus booster shot for fall

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4 points·mfiguiere··4 comments

Things, hopefully, have moved onto steady-state. Covid can be seen as somewhere between a mild cold and a bad flu, and the vaccines start looking like flu shots. Based on how the next few years and variants behave, we might see annual shots or, perhaps, there will be some progress on a more general coronavirus vaccine (assuming there's a suitable invariant region of the coat).

Flu didn't kill 500 people last week (using USA numbers here).

CDC estimates of flu deaths in the US per year: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2019-2020.html

For the 2019-2020 year, there was an estimated 20,000 deaths for an average of 384 per week.

For the 2018-2019 year, there was an estimated 28,000 deaths for an average of 538 per week.

For the 2017-2018 year, there was an estimated 52,000 deaths for an average of 1,000 per week.

So, yes, that is exactly how much the flu kills every week, on average. In a bad flu year, like the 2017-2018 year, the flu kills twice as many as that.

Well, this winter there will be a flu season as nobody has the patience to mask, wash handed or keep distance. Hope they guess right on the shots. Guess the Asian nations had a good handle on fighting respiratory sicknesses with their traditional mask usage.

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