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The flu is also going strong, but people aren't saying it still feels like 1918. I don't know the definition of COVID-19 becoming endemic but it certainly feels like it has become that.
And any reference I hear to it is no more common or strange than a reference to the flu or some other common illness.
Yeah I'm sure it is endemic at this point, but it's still killing 100 Americans a day. I don't think the flu is near that level, but I could be mistaken. Vaccines are still crucial against both.
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Edit: I'm wrong, they are at nearly identical mortality rates.
Flu kills about 36k each year in America, so actually very close to 100 a day.
Covid is just a thing that exists now unfortunately.
Wow I stand corrected