guess I'm just tired of the same name, maybe we just call it covid.. and strike the 19... since everything is a derivative/mutation and not wholly the same full strain, but I'm not a virologist by any measure.
Curing the Flu is a solution. The public wants this, not a flu shot, no matter how impossible the task is. A flu shot every year is just band-aiding the problem, and redelivering said problem every year.
But, we’d also need to rout out all the reservoirs of flu virus in agriculture and nature that have the potential to jump species back to humans. That’s a lot of ducks, chickens, pigs, whales, horses, seals, etc to vaccinate or cull.
For example, the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic virus is called H1N1-pdm-09 (or just H1N1/09) in literature.