ATS Broadens Vaccine Push with Partnership from Five More Health Systems
The health systems will prioritize improving vaccine rates among high-risk adults with lung disease across different populations.
The health systems will prioritize improving vaccine rates among high-risk adults with lung disease across different populations.
Seizure risks, a needle-free vaccine patch, and a compound that may limit flu replication—here are five flu stories you should check out this week.
Influenza season usually peaks between December and February, but in many parts of the country this year it peaked in the spring.
Influenza A viruses are the predominant flu strain this season, according to the latest data from the US CDC.
Read MoreFlu vaccination protected children against serious flu illness even when they were infected with a flu virus that was antigenically different from the vaccine virus, according to a CDC study.
Read MoreThe current flu vaccines don’t match the predominant circulating flu viruses, which means they may not do much to prevent infection, according to researchers.
Read MoreThe Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) signed a contract with the BARDA’s “Beyond the Needle” program to develop an intranasally delivered RNA vaccine for pandemic influenza.
Read MoreWhile still low for this time of year, influenza cases detected by clinical and public health labs have increased in recent weeks, CDC data shows.
Read MorePositive results from the first co-administration study of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate and an approved influenza vaccine have been published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
Read MoreInfluenza vaccination reduces the risk of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, or stent thrombosis at 12 months in hospitalized patients with myocardial infarction or high-risk coronary disease.
Read MoreNew research that looks at the durability of influenza vaccination indicates ebbing protection just months after the jab.
Read MoreThe chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Utah, Andrew Pavia, MD, outlines the importance of getting the flu shot during the pandemic.
Read MoreThose who got a flu shot may be less likely to suffer a severe COVID-19 infection, new research found.
Read MoreBritish doctors have asked authorities to make flu testing available amid concerns of a possible upcoming influenza epidemic.
Read MoreModerna hopes an mRNA-based flu shot will be a more effective way to combat seasonal influenza outbreaks.
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