Bill Gates: Covid-19 infection and death rates should be on a par with seasonal flu by mid-2022

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Through a combination of natural immunity, vaccine immunity and new oral treatments, the death and disease rates for Covid-19 are coming down dramatically - and by the summer of 2022 should be on a par, or even lower than, the average levels of seasonal flu, said Bill Gates (pic) on Thursday (Nov 18).

Once this happens, it is likely that economic activity will resume fully, notwithstanding some remaining hot spots, said Gates, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore.