The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.

The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.

  • @devil_d0c
    15•1 year ago

    That’s pretty neat

    Bye bye influenza B/Yamagata

    • ForestOrca
      19•1 year ago

      The most interesting thing about this result is that it was achieved thru behavioral change (masking, hand washing, distancing, isolation), and not technologic advancement. We have the capability, with cooperation to significantly alter the infectious disease landscape.

      • @[email protected]
        9•1 year ago

        Human beings, when working together, quite literally are the strongest biological force on Earth. There is very little we can’t do when working together.

        Key phrase: together.