FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
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FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
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"It's a bad day for infectious diseases," said Dr. Ofer Levy
I would argue it’s a great day for infectious diseases, but a bad day for humanity.
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Too true. Queue meme:
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I will say that they whiffed incredibly badly on this year's flu prediction.
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That happens from time to time; it's incredibly hard to predict which strains will be prevalent months down the line, and flu mutates so rapidly that what's circulating now might be a rather different strain from what will be circulating by the time the vaccine is rolling out. It's frequently a shot in the dark, but shooting in the dark is always going to get more hits than not shooting at all.
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Another fun fact, they usually don't just select a single strain for the yearly vaccine. They often select a handful of strains, and net on one of them being the one.
So a shotgun in the dark.
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