We knew something like this was coming... The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines
Okay. We don't want to be 'vaccinating' for something not needed. Uhhhh... What if the so-called 'vaccines' aren't vaccines?
Does that make all the furor a worthwhile pursuit?
Errrr....
...Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the United States will probably contain only three strains, and the change is because of Covid-19.
In 2020, all the precautions that helped people avoid Covid had an unexpected benefit: An entire branch of the flu's family tree, a B strain that geneticists call the Yamagata clade, disappeared, and it hasn?t been detected since...
There are good reasons for dropping the Yamagata strain, Offit said.
"You don't want to be vaccinating people for something they don't need," he said.
There may also be some harms in continuing to include it, said Dr. Jodie Guest, senior vice chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University?s Rollins School of Public Health...
In 2020, all the precautions that helped people avoid Covid had an unexpected benefit: An entire branch of the flu's family tree, a B strain that geneticists call the Yamagata clade, disappeared, and it hasn?t been detected since...
There are good reasons for dropping the Yamagata strain, Offit said.
"You don't want to be vaccinating people for something they don't need," he said.
There may also be some harms in continuing to include it, said Dr. Jodie Guest, senior vice chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University?s Rollins School of Public Health...
Does that make all the furor a worthwhile pursuit?
Errrr....

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