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Originally Posted by Hugh

Not sure I think "monitoring and managing" something with six times the death rate of flu an appropriate method of health management...

Well..................that’s why you will be vaccinated every year.......Like........the........flu

Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, thinks the coronavirus might follow a similar path. “I do think SARS-CoV-2 will become a less serious problem and something like flu,” he says. Shaman and others say the virus could also settle into a seasonal pattern of annual winter outbreaks similar to flu.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00396-2

"And this starts to look more like annual flu than anything else and that may be the direction we end up going." - Patrick Vallance

https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/...20-p566no.html

But even if the virus sticks around, new vaccines and new drugs to fight the virus mean it's unlikely to cause severe illness in the future. Offit predicts "that eventually, it will cause fewer deaths than influenza."

It is possible, experts say, that COVID-19 could become a seasonal illness, like the flu. Virologists call this an "endemic" disease -- one that is constantly circulating among us. In the years and decades to come, many people will be exposed to it in childhood and develop some immunity, which would protect them later in life against serious disease.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-...ry?id=75830451

"Variations of this virus will be around for a long time," Langlois said in an interview airing today on CBC's political affairs program The House.

"It may even become endemic, which means that every year when we get our flu shot, we'll be getting our coronavirus shot for whatever variants are circulating at that specific time."

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/co...ants-1.5973320

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

No more lockdowns: UK will treat Covid like seasonal flu, says Chris Whitty


Lockdowns will likely become a thing of the past once England emerges from restrictions in June, Professor Chris Whitty has said, as he suggested Britain will treat coronavirus like the flu in the future.


https://www.cityam.com/no-more-lockd...-chris-whitty/

Don’t tell that to Hugh!

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Originally Posted by jfman

On the contrary - it makes them more essential to managing the response. Not less.

No it doesn’t. The response is “vaccinate all those required - annually”