*Lab engineered flu

I know it's an unpopular opinion here but that's simply not true. It's true today, but it wasn't always so- as someone who was there running the first COVID units from the beginning, I always reassure patients by stating I have not had to call the ICU for a truly sick COVID patient since February of 2022. Before that it was almost every day. Things changed after Omicron.

Before Omicron, throughout most of the Delta wave, I was taking care of 90% unvaccinated patients and a handful of severely immunocompromised patients (transplant etc). After Omicron, vaccinated or not, people simply have not been sick. I haven't seen any of the characteristic X-Ray and CT findings we saw through 2021. Any sick patients in early 2022 were likely residual Delta cases.

Unfortunately twitter/rogan etc is full of clout chasing virologists and epidemiologists and short on front line workers who actually cared for patients throughout the pandemic.