President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before

  • UristMcHolland@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We had 1 chance to eradicate COVID and that was when countries first started locking down. We failed… Miserably. So now COVID is endemic, meaning it is NEVER GOING TO GO AWAY. We will be going in for COVID and Flu shots every year for the foreseeable future. If we are lucky, they’ll eventually be able to roll the flu and COVID shots into one inoculation.

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      1 year ago

      The terrible part being that Covid is several times more deadly than the flu, so we’re going to have 60,000 more deaths on average per year than we used to. And that’s only until some other viral epidemic occurs.