“COVID-19 infections continue to outnumber flu cases and lead to more hospitalization and death than the flu. COVID-19 also leads to more serious long-term health problems. Trivializing COVID-19 as an inconsequential cold or equating it with the flu does not align with reality.”
The point seems to be to try to tell the kind of person who probably won’t read this article that they’re wrong to say that COVID isn’t a big deal.