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The CTI’s work on endemic COVID-19 was featured in POLITICO Pro’s Morning Health Care newsletter (1 April 2026).
Key points
- Only 8.7% of people aged 60+ received a COVID-19 vaccine, compared with 47.1% for influenza.
- Prof. Leif Erik Sander (Charité, Berlin): “This isn’t on people’s minds.”
- Prof. Sir Jonathan Van-Tam: “If the data tell us that the lethality of Covid by age is roughly the same as seasonal flu, then it makes no sense at all” to treat them differently.
- Other voices in the piece included Juan-Jose Ventura (Cancer Patients Europe) and Mike Ryan (former WHO Deputy Director-General).
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