Flu News Friday: The Latest in Influenza Vaccines
October 9, 2020
FAQs for the 2020–2021 flu season available here.
Burden estimates for the 2019–2020 flu season: 39,000,000–56,000,000 flu illnesses, 18,000,000–26,000,000 flu medical visits, 410,000–740,000 flu hospitalizations, and 24,000–62,000 flu deaths.
Surveillance for COVID-19 is available on COVIDView.
1. High-risk, high-reward grants awarded to four Stanford researchers
Stanford Medicine / October 8, 2020
2. Could The Live Flu Vaccine Help You Fight Off COVID-19?
Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR / October 8, 2020
3. A step toward a universal flu vaccine
Anne Trafton, MIT News Office / October 7, 2020
4. Defining and Manipulating B Cell Immunodominance Hierarchies to Elicit Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Responses against Influenza Virus
Amitai et al., Cell Systems / October 7, 2020
5. Adenoviral Vector-Based Vaccine Platforms for Developing the Next Generation of Influenza Vaccines
Sayedahmed et al., Vaccines / October 1, 2020
6. What Will Cold-and-Flu Season Mean for the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker / October 1, 2020
7. Funding Opportunity: Cohort Studies To Improve Our Understanding of Influenza Immunity, Vaccine Response and Effectiveness in Older Adults (65 years and older)
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases / September 30, 2020
8. Virus Hunters program launches with students helping to prevent the next pandemic
Sasha Chait, Biobus / September 29, 2020
9. Funding Opportunity: Understanding Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza to Inform and Improve Vaccine Strain Selection
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases / September 25, 2020
10. Probing the evolution of Influenza at high resolution
The Bloom Lab, Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center / September 20, 2020
11. Influenza–Host Interplay and Strategies for Universal Vaccine Development
Hwang et al., Vaccines / September 20, 2020
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