Minimizing COVID

CNN is doing some COVID downplaying today: After four years with Covid-19, the US is settling into a new approach to respiratory virus season 

"With the arrival of spring, the United States is easing out of respiratory virus season, a familiar pattern that has been challenged by Covid-19 for the past four years.

"The addition of a novel germ has complicated and expanded respiratory virus season, which was already notoriously difficult to predict. This season had its own unique set of circumstances as public health balanced a significant transition out of the public health emergency with efforts to find a sustainable way forward.

"Experts say that focused planning and forecasting efforts helped avoid some of the worst-case scenarios. But there was still a significant number of severe outcomes, and there are still key areas of improvement – especially around vaccination.

"'I am grateful that we’re not still in the height of the pandemic, but we saw some really strong, severe respiratory disease season increases, and some groups were incredibly impacted by it,'  said Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists."

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They're all using the same line now, that COVID and Long COVID are just another respiratory disease. But we know it's more serious than that.