Virus no worse than flu by mid-2022 Bill Gates said. He thinks COVID death and infection rates may fall below flu by mid-2022-assuming no new variants. By the end of this week, there will have been more than 255 million cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and 5.1 million deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. He said vaccine supply issues “will be largely solved” by the middle of next year. Pharmaceutical companies Merck and Pfizer have both developed oral treatments and “we’ve been able to reformulate the Merck drug so it will cost less than […]