<story><title>Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50</title><url>https://www.sst.dk/en/english/corona-eng/vaccination-against-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kranar</author><text>2018 was an exceptionally bad year for influenza. Typically influenza deaths in the U.S. are between 20-30k.&lt;p&gt;COVID deaths in the U.S. over a two year period amounted to over 1 million.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Bit by bit, it is becoming the new influenza.  Not saying we&amp;#x27;re there yet, but that&amp;#x27;s clearly where we&amp;#x27;re headed.&lt;p&gt;Now, influenza kills lots of people; in 2018 over 60,000 people were killed by influenza in the USA alone.  But we don&amp;#x27;t have border closing or &amp;quot;show your papers&amp;quot; or all the rest for influenza, and we&amp;#x27;re not going to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>antasvara</author><text>I think the commenter you&amp;#x27;re responding to was indicating that we&amp;#x27;re moving towards COVID as the new influenza, not that we&amp;#x27;re there yet.&lt;p&gt;Case numbers and deaths seem to be plateauing at a pretty low rate, especially considering the relaxed restrictions these numbers are occurring under. It seems reasonable to think that we won&amp;#x27;t suddenly see a more dangerous strain of this particular virus, or that vaccines will lose a significant amount of effectiveness.</text></comment>
<story><title>Denmark not offering second Covid booster shot to healthy adults under 50</title><url>https://www.sst.dk/en/english/corona-eng/vaccination-against-covid-19</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Kranar</author><text>2018 was an exceptionally bad year for influenza. Typically influenza deaths in the U.S. are between 20-30k.&lt;p&gt;COVID deaths in the U.S. over a two year period amounted to over 1 million.</text></item><item><author>rossdavidh</author><text>Bit by bit, it is becoming the new influenza.  Not saying we&amp;#x27;re there yet, but that&amp;#x27;s clearly where we&amp;#x27;re headed.&lt;p&gt;Now, influenza kills lots of people; in 2018 over 60,000 people were killed by influenza in the USA alone.  But we don&amp;#x27;t have border closing or &amp;quot;show your papers&amp;quot; or all the rest for influenza, and we&amp;#x27;re not going to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lifeformed</author><text>And that&amp;#x27;s with tons of precautions, whereas with the flu society doesn&amp;#x27;t take the kinds of mitigations we take with COVID.</text></comment>