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Is there any data on whether the flu vaccine is working this year? The fundamental problem with the flu vaccine is that they make it ahead of time guessing at w
by gregwebs 2y ago
Is there any data on whether the flu vaccine is working this year? The fundamental problem with the flu vaccine is that they make it ahead of time guessing at what the flu will look like in the next flu season. If the flu mutates or otherwise the vaccine isn’t a good match it doesn’t work well. If we are having a particularly strong flu season it is likely because the flu vaccine isn’t helping much and the advertisements might be setting false expectations.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agohttps://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-06.html https://www.cdc.gov/fluview/surveillance/2025-week-06.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/2024-2025.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/2024-2025.html It looks like the vaccine was right on the money this year. They recommended H1N1 and H3N2 for the vaccines and that's what is circulating.
- gregwebs 2y agoThanks you for linking to that data. Glad they got it right this year. It would be great if we could also see the results of a placebo controlled trial every year as well to remove all doubt about whether or not it worked during the season.