FDA finally admits COVID-19 is like the flu

In a May 2, 2022 JAMA viewpoint, top FDA officials wrote that, going forward, Americans will have to “accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal”, another respiratory virus just like influenza i.e. the flu!

On the back of close to a million deaths in the US “attributable” to COVID-19, they wrote, “widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity [natural immunity], combined with the availability of effective therapeutics [not these], could blunt the effects of future outbreaks. Nonetheless, it is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal.”

The new normal will “likely require annual COVID-19 shots to be tailored around the most threatening strains of the virus” along with an annual influenza vaccine.

Conveniently companies such as Moderna have already been working on a combination vaccine.