The flu kills more Americans each year than any other virus, according to estimates. Perhaps we should listen to those who suggest all the hype about the Coronavirus obscures the danger of the common flu.
With about 60,000 dying annually in America, and maybe 650,000 globally, isn't the common flu already what we fear the Coronavirus will become?
A pandemic.
And, while we speak of how a vaccine for Coronavirus is more than a year away, should we notice that what vaccines we have for the common flu are not yielding us good defense against this deadly killer, the common flu?
Are we not using them, or are they ineffective?
Or, is the fact we are using them the very problem? It is said that the world of viruses builds up its own immunities against vaccines.
One could argue that for all the urgency to find a vaccine to counter COVID-19, there is just as great an urgency to develop an effective one for the common flu.
But, then again, maybe we should see that all this means we need a new scientific breakthrough. Vaccines may be our death. Perhaps one of the greatest needs in the world today, is to develop something other than vaccines to fight against flues and viruses such as COVID-19.
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