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Or the Great Danger War of 2017
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Or the Great Danger War of 2017
neil999
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Everyone agrees in there
Behavioral factors would be my guess but would be great if there were medical reasons.
www.scientificamerican.com
U.S. health officials are urging Americans to get their flu shots this year in the hopes of thwarting a winter “twindemic”—a situation in which both influenza and COVID-19 spread and sicken the public. But a new study suggests that there could be another key reason to get a flu jab this year: it might reduce your risk of COVID-19. The research, released as a preprint that has not yet been peer-reviewed, indicates that a flu vaccine against the influenza virus may also trigger the body to produce broad infection-fighting molecules that combat the pandemic-causing coronavirus. The paper is in line with some other recent studies published in peer-reviewed journals that point to similar effects. But researchers caution the research is preliminary and needs to be bolstered by more rigorous experiments.
In the new study, Mihai Netea, an infectious disease immunologist at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and his colleagues combed through their hospital’s databases to see if employees who got a flu shot during the 2019–2020 season were more or less likely to get infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. Workers who received a flu vaccine, the researchers found, were 39 percent less likely to test positive for the coronavirus as of June 1, 2020. While 2.23 percent of nonvaccinated employees tested positive, only 1.33 percent of vaccinated ones did. Netea and his team posted their findings on the preprint server MedRxiv on October 16.
These findings do not prove that flu vaccines prevent COVID-19, however. “This is an intriguing study, but it doesn’t provide definitive evidence,” says Ellen Foxman, an immunobiologist and clinical pathologist at the Yale School of Medicine. There could be other explanations for the association the Radboud scientists and their colleagues found. For instance, people who choose to receive a flu shot may be more health-conscious and more likely to follow COVID-19 prevention guidelines than individuals who do not get vaccinated. Netea agrees, noting that overall behavior, rather than the shot, might have made people in the former group less likely to get sick in his study.
A Flu Shot Might Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Early Research Suggests
Hospital workers who got vaccinated were significantly less likely to develop COVID than those who did not
In the new study, Mihai Netea, an infectious disease immunologist at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, and his colleagues combed through their hospital’s databases to see if employees who got a flu shot during the 2019–2020 season were more or less likely to get infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19. Workers who received a flu vaccine, the researchers found, were 39 percent less likely to test positive for the coronavirus as of June 1, 2020. While 2.23 percent of nonvaccinated employees tested positive, only 1.33 percent of vaccinated ones did. Netea and his team posted their findings on the preprint server MedRxiv on October 16.
These findings do not prove that flu vaccines prevent COVID-19, however. “This is an intriguing study, but it doesn’t provide definitive evidence,” says Ellen Foxman, an immunobiologist and clinical pathologist at the Yale School of Medicine. There could be other explanations for the association the Radboud scientists and their colleagues found. For instance, people who choose to receive a flu shot may be more health-conscious and more likely to follow COVID-19 prevention guidelines than individuals who do not get vaccinated. Netea agrees, noting that overall behavior, rather than the shot, might have made people in the former group less likely to get sick in his study.
Kenshin
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Aye but there is a difference between a nice pub lunch still and sitting in a big room drinking cola with other men .
No alcohol means noone will go the pub
Had to chuckle as Radio4 spoke with a senior Belgian epidemiologist bloke, and they asked him whether this kind of thing was a good idea, and he kinda said it was both desperate and playing with fire. *sigh Get something right you meffs, we could do without any family members dying xx
NilSatisOptimum
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Wow 60,000 dead now, 20,000 was the number if we followed Government lockdown rules from March to July.
www.newscientist.com
Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response
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Then..Wow 60,000 dead now, 20,000 was the number if we followed Government lockdown rules from March to July.
Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response
A regular round-up of the latest coronavirus news, plus insight, features and interviews from New Scientist about the covid-19 pandemic
Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
Idea for a social experiment, head out to Tesco in the nip and when confronted claim that clothes are apparently non essential items, there'd at least be an interesting court case.
NilSatisOptimum
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It's kept tourist caravanning and holiday home people away which has been a problem right up to last week... Effectively Wales is closed, so in that aspect it's Wales 1 - Covid mouth breathers 0. I have roads to myself which is personal bonus.
I thought this was pretty common knowledge?
They sometimes differentiate between covid and "covid related" when giving statistics on the news. "Covid related" was where it was confirmed or suspected that the person had the virus. That's how I interpreted it anyway.
NilSatisOptimum
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Indeed. A demonstration of the fatal flaw in free at the point of delivery, NHS service, exasperating, well for someone else, innit.
Eitherway, we don't and will never know how many people have died exclusively because of covid!!
NilSatisOptimum
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Scary times for workers in Britain, the great levelling...
Was bowling yesterday and the rule was mask on at all times (unless eating/drinking) except if you're Under 11.
Because kids can't spread it???????????
Because kids can't spread it???????????
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