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We seem to have been increasingly getting bad at that guessing game... Thankfully coronavirus put the kaibosh on the flu at least in the short term, so if it w
by dnautics 5y ago
We seem to have been increasingly getting bad at that guessing game... Thankfully coronavirus put the kaibosh on the flu at least in the short term, so if it was the flu pangenome making a meta-evolutionary play, we may have reset that clock.
- nradov 5y agoFalse. The seasonal influenza vaccine creators haven't been increasingly getting bad at that guessing game. Vaccine effectiveness estimates have fluctuated up and down randomly with no clear trend. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates...
- dnautics 5y agoare we looking at the same data? It's hovering around 40% with at least two duds, when it used to be in the high fifties, even 60%. Plus, this is a table of strictly "seasonal" flus. There is no clear definition of what constitutes a "seasonal" flu; If I'm not mistaken, "non-seasonal" is just a catch-all for flus that weren't part of the vaccine package.