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petrea_mitchell ([personal profile] petrea_mitchell) wrote2023-10-12 07:45 am
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Public health measures work!

A 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:

  1. It wasn’t thought that we could eliminate a flu strain.
  2. This strain was notoriously difficult to predict for flu vaccine strain-selection purposes.
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