No, we can’t treat COVID-19 like the flu. We have to consider the lasting health problems it causes
- Written by Zoë Hyde, Epidemiologist, The University of Western Australia

Earlier this month, the Australian government announced a four-phase plan to return us to something resembling normality. Under this plan, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, we will eventually treat COVID-19 “like the flu”.
The hope is vaccines will allow us to live with some transmission without many people getting...