02-26-2021, 03:06 PM
A side effect to all the attention on the coronavirus is that the flu has basically been non-existent this year.
An interview with the Seattle Flu Study head, it was revealed that while last flu season, 114 people died from the flu in Washington state, 0 have perished thus far this year.
https://kuow.org/stories/drastic-drop-in...strictions
Also UW has tested 40 thousand samples from covid testing and only 4 came back positive
Great news, right?
Yes, and well, not fully. Â
An interview with the Seattle Flu Study head, it was revealed that while last flu season, 114 people died from the flu in Washington state, 0 have perished thus far this year.
https://kuow.org/stories/drastic-drop-in...strictions
Also UW has tested 40 thousand samples from covid testing and only 4 came back positive
Great news, right?
Yes, and well, not fully. Â
Quote:Yes. It is going to be much more difficult to develop next year's flu vaccine. The way that flu vaccine strain selection works, how we pick the pieces that go into the flu vaccine, is that we look at what's been circulating around the world.
Quote:The good news is that there are four pieces of the flu vaccine because most people get what's called a Quadrivalent Vaccine and that three of those four actually don't change very much from year to year. So those three will not be hard to predict.