Health-care workers who got the influenza vaccine were also protected from COVID-19 — but the effect might not last long. By Ewen Callaway Twitter Facebook Email Influenza vaccines have a surprising health benefit: they might also prevent COVID-19, particularly in its most severe forms1....
That said, you’re not alone if you have reservations about vaccine co-administration. Most U.S. adults 18 and older (61%) wouldn’t or are unsure if they’d get their COVID and flu vaccines together, according to a survey conducted in August by the National Foundation for Infectious Di...
That's not because it's dangerous to get them too close together, but because you'll get some protection from the previous dose or infection, so you probably don't need another dose yet. Similarly, the CDC typically recommends that people get their flu vaccine by the end of October ...
It will scour the medical records of patients and send those who are eligible for a seasonal flu or covid-19 vaccine a text message, inviting them to make an appointment. "We're bracing ourselves for it, as ever," says Neil Bhatia, one of the general practitioner (GP) partners. By ...
“Nobody thought it could be done this fast. Normally it would be years, and we did it in a matter of a few months. We are producing them in advance so hundreds of millions of doses can be quickly available. We have a safe and effective vaccine this year, and together we will ...
Before COVID-19, his team was working onmRNA flu vaccines, as well as candidates for genital herpes and HIV. Influenza viruses acquire variations from season to season, making them excellent candidates for a rapid “vaccine on demand” platform. ...
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"We would have the same vaccine strain composition for all spike based COVID-19 vaccines, which would hopefully allow one to have interchangeability," said Marks. Time is running out for the switch. While boosters for most Americans used an updated bivalent recipe targeted to the BA.4 and BA...
The latest vaccine formula is available in local pharmacies now. Experts say it will be like the annual flu shot: one and done. Here’s why.
mRNA flu vaccine, which would be one vaccine that wouldn't necessarily need to change year-to-year," Amiji says of the experimental universal flu shot. "That gives us this opportunity to say, if you could create auniversal flu vaccine, why not create that together with the COVID booster...