Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US

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8. The flu usually takes a couple weeks to get the last of the cough done

with the hope you don't pick up some secondary bacterial infection along the way - and then the whole mess gets extended out for more weeks.

And yeah - this is going to be at least annual, if not biannual because these vaccines seem to supposedly only hang on for about 4 - 5 months providing a good response before the immune response wanes. I guess the hope is that they can find some target spot on the COVID-19 virus that appears on most if not all the variants and be able to produce some sort of vaccine that teaches the body's immune system to trigger when it detects that zone on an incoming virus and not "forget" what to do.

Novavax just got approved for an EUA so I expect that at some point, it might become part of a mix/match primary series or as a booster (but it's not yet approved for either - just as part of its own primary series). It uses a different mechanism for to teach the body's immune system how to respond and is thought to be a possible good alternative to those who either don't want a mRNA vaccine or possibly (if they authorize it) as a 2nd dose for someone who didn't complete a primary series of any of the other vaccines.