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> with significantly reduced travel and social restrictions in the southern hemisphere, the data's going to be bad, so this year's flu shot won't be as effecti
by hcknwscommenter 6y ago
> with significantly reduced travel and social restrictions in the southern hemisphere, the data's going to be bad, so this year's flu shot won't be as effective
This does not seem correct. The data on this does not require travel or social interaction. The CDC (and other gov't agencies throughout the world) literally has cooperation with sites around the world to monitor the rise of new flu strains. These sites use technology like: the telephone, the internet, and the fax machine, to transmit the information the world uses to develop the current generation flu vaccine.
- worker767424 6y agoWhat I meant is that if people aren't traveling, strains will be more localized, so what happened in Australia last summer tells us little about our winter.
- hcknwscommenter 6y agoIt is an hypothesis, but the data suggests that the effect will be weak to non-existence. Data shows that the seasonal influenza pattern existed before modern era levels of international travel.