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    Commentary: You might need a COVID booster yearly. But this virus is still nothing like the flu

    by Peter Chin-Hong, Los Angeles Times Sep 16, 2022 3 minutes
    A resident receives a pneumonia vaccine during an event hosted by the Chicago Department of Public Health at the Southwest Senior Center on Sept. 9, 2022 in Chicago.

    Should everyone eligible get the new omicron-specific COVID booster? Yes, absolutely. But we should not get lulled into the illusion that the fight against COVID is over and now comparable to preventing the flu.

    The deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. this year make the case for boosters: Although unvaccinated people remain the majority of deaths, the proportion of vaccinated individuals dying in America has increased (42% of deaths last January and February, compared with 23% in September 2021).

    Vaccinated patients who die have disproportionately been those 75 and older who have

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