Public health experts warned from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that the disease was “not like the flu,” resulting in far more deaths and hospitalizations each year.
Unless most people get annual booster shots, that grim tide is not going to let up anytime soon, a new Pennsylvania State University study finds.
Just under half of people in the United States got a dose of vaccine in 2022, and if the annual vaccination rate stays at that level for the next decade, 89,000 to 120,000 people will die of COVID-19 each year, the authors projected.
