While the Omicron coronavirus variant is widely considered less likely to cause severe disease and require hospital treatment, Julkunen and Olli Vapalahti, professor of zoonotic virology at the University of Helsinki, agree that Omicron is not harmless.
The name “flurona” suggests a new disease, but it is just two familiar infections – flu and COVID-19 – at once. And this is just a thing that viruses do.