How coronavirus is more closely resembling the flu in some characterisitics

More uniformly infectious, more treatable, more genetically predictable: How coronavirus is getting closer to flu There are signs that the coronavirus — and our relationship to it — is shifting in subtle ways that make it more like seasonal flu than it was at the start of the pandemic. Megan Molteni STAT

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SARS-CoV-2 remains a long way from being ordinary. It has not yet found seasonal cadence — take the recent surge in Europe and the U.K., which comes just weeks after the initial Omicron wave subsided — and it’s still capable of inflicting mass death and disability (see Hong Kong’s lethal last few months).

But there are signs that the virus — and our relationship to it — is shifting in subtle ways that make it more like seasonal flu than it was at the start of the pandemic.

One of the most intriguing shifts involves how Covid now spreads from person to person.

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