Scott Gottlieb: There’s No Reason to Believe We’re Going to Have a Worse Flu Season Like in Past Years

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GOTTLIEB: “There's no reason to believe that we're going to have a worse flu season than what we've seen in past years, and probably hopefully less than what we saw last year where we saw a very dense and early epidemic of flu. With Covid, cases right now are less than what they were last year at this point of time. We're averaging about 600,000 cases day based on some modeling work that has been done off of waste water. And the predominant strain that's increasing in prevalence is the BA.2.86 strain, the one we talked about a couple of months ago that spread through parts of Europe, and a particular variant of that called JN.1 that does appear to spread more easily. There's no reason to believe that it's more dangerous than previous strains of Covid. And people who have been vaccinated with the new variant vaccine or who had a recent Covid infection should have some protection against this new variant."