Public health measures work!
Oct. 12th, 2023 07:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellA brief aside in the latest YLE newsletter:
Interestingly, one specific strain of flu—called Yamagata influenza B—has gone extinct due to Covid-19 measures. This is incredible news because of two things:
- It wasn’t thought that we could eliminate a flu strain.
- This strain was notoriously difficult to predict for flu vaccine strain-selection purposes.
