Flu shots are a 'very good match' to this season's strains, CDC says

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Health officials are redoubling calls for Americans to get vaccinated, with flu shots lagging previous seasons.

that last season's"influenza vaccination did not significantly reduce the risk of outpatient medically attended illness" against the predominant strain of viruses.

"We would expect clinical vaccine effectiveness to be quite good, but we won't know that until sometime in the early part of next year, depending upon how these vaccine effectiveness studies enroll," the CDC's Tim Uyeki told a webinar hosted by the Infectious Diseases Society of AmericaWhile the flu season started far earlier this year compared to pre-pandemic seasons, Uyeki cautioned that it could still be far from over.

"So just because we haven't seen a lot of influenza B so far, it may be coming, if this is a typical influenza season," said Uyeki. At the CDC briefing on Monday, the American Medical Association's Dr. Sandra Fryhofer urged Americans not to let down their guard even if they had recovered from a flu infection already once this season. She urged Americans to seek out a flu shot rather than risk getting infected again.

"We've forgotten how bad the flu can be. But this year's season is a shout out that it can get really bad and it's here, so people need to get vaccinated," Fryhofer said.

 

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