Melissa's Musings(My opinionated view of life)

COVID is more dangerous than flu for kids, study finds : COVID-19 poses far more danger to kids than seasonal flu, a new study confirms. "We found the impact to pediatric hospitalization among the two viruses are not equivalent and, in fact, children admitted with COVID-19 or MIS-C experienced longer stays and required more invasive treatments like mechanical ventilation than children admitted with the flu," said principal investigator Dr. Steven Shein. He is chief of pediatric critical care medicine at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital in Cleveland.

Too soon to treat COVID-19 like flu as Omicron spreads - WHO | Reuters That's just common sense, although common sense is not so common....

Pandemics past: Seven times flu has become a mass killer | New Scientist

How Endemic COVID Becomes a Manageable Risk - The Atlantic : With SARS-CoV-2 mingling alongside influenza—and causing a comparable level of death and disease—the harm to public health and economic productivity will be too great for society to simply shrug off. The dual viral threat will compel better defenses. We won’t have a choice.

We should treat COVID like norovirus—not the flu

Moderna Announces First Participant Dosed in Phase 1/2 Study of Its Quadrivalent Seasonal Flu mRNA Vaccine | Moderna, Inc.