Vaccine advocates get more evidence
Two new studies provide hard numbers, showing effective drops in risk and infection in at-risk populations. The news, keying on flu inoculations, comes amid fears over national policy.
This week, two new studies made strong cases for vaccines against deadly viruses with limited alternative treatments. Vaccine advocates have been quick to herald these findings as proof of the benefits of large-scale inoculation campaigns.
The findings give health care practitioners and communicators new ammunition in the information wars regarding vaccines.
A new study examining child deaths from influenza has found that a large percentage had not been vaccinated.
[The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] found that at least three-quarters of kids who died from influenza between 2010 and 2014 had not been vaccinated in the months before they got sick.
The study looked at 358 children who died of influenza from 2010 to 2014 and found that children stood to benefit from a flu vaccine even if they were otherwise healthy.
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