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Tun-Hou Lee, professor emeritus of virology at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, notes that the mortality rate of the coronavirus (254 deaths per 100,000 people) is still far higher than that of influenza (1.8 deaths per 100,000 people).
“Even if one believes that the mortality rate of 254 per 100,000 will be lower once most of the U.S. population is ‘fully’ vaccinated, my bias is that SARS-CoV-2 infection will have a higher mortality rate than flu,” he said.
Checking his math - he's comparing covid mortality to date vs annual flu mortality (why can no one do math?). His point stands that Covid is far more deadly than flu, and "living with it" will not be pleasant.
I still find that Taiwan's/New Zealand's/China's approach seems less disruptive than ours. Had we pursued it from the start, Omicron likely never would have evolved. Same for the next variant of concern.