(HealthDay)—Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations have been updated to include the influenza vaccination for the 2020 to 2021 season; the recommendations were published in the Aug. 21 issue ...
Aug 21, 2020
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Flu season is just around the corner, and the United States still hasn't contained the coronavirus. That sets up an unsettling challenge this fall: how to minimize the impact of the simultaneous spread of COVID-19 and seasonal ...
Aug 21, 2020
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A city-wide school influenza vaccine intervention was associated with a decrease in influenza-associated hospitalizations for all age groups and a decrease in school absence rates among students in seasons with an effective ...
Aug 18, 2020
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Finland declared a lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, and the ensuing social distancing measures decreased the number of pediatric emergency room visits to nearly one-third of what they used to ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Early infections of influenza A can help predict how the virus will affect people across different ages in the future and could impact the effectiveness of flu vaccines, says a new study published today in eLife.
Jul 7, 2020
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Up to 76 percent of all outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the United States may be inappropriate, with peak prescribing associated with the flu season. Evidence suggests that influenza vaccines may reduce overall and ...
Jun 10, 2020
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In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump announced that Americans need not worry because the new coronavirus was "like a flu."
May 14, 2020
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Deaths of children and adolescents in China due to infectious diseases were becoming rare prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new study.
Apr 3, 2020
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You're probably inundated with news and messages about coronavirus at the moment. But how do you know if you're consuming evidence-based information or just speculation and myth?
Mar 20, 2020
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The prime minister earlier today announced that from May 1, people need to be vaccinated against the flu before visiting an aged care facility.
Mar 19, 2020
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