Flu News Friday: The Latest in Influenza Vaccines
October 16, 2020
FAQs for the 2020–2021 flu season available here. Weekly surveillance for the 2020–2021 flu season is available here; currently, seasonal flu activity is low.
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. Moradi to Develop Computational Models of Influenza Virus Protein
University of Arkansas / October 16, 2020
2. How do pandemics end? History suggests diseases fade but are almost never truly gone
Nükhet Varlik, The Conversation / October 14, 2020
3. Efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety of a plant-derived, quadrivalent, virus-like particle influenza vaccine in adults (18–64 years) and older adults (≥65 years): two multicentre, randomised phase 3 trials
Ward et al., The Lancet / October 13, 2020
4. Systemic and respiratory T-cells induced by seasonal H1N1 influenza protect against pandemic H2N2 in ferrets
van de Ken et al., Communications Biology / October 9, 2020
5. Influenza vaccine–induced human bone marrow plasma cells decline within a year after vaccination
Davis et al., Science / October 9, 2020
6. Are long-term influenza vaccines possible and how do we discover them?
Kim et al., Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery / October 8, 2020
7. Harnessing the Activation of Toll-Like Receptor 2/6 by Self-Assembled Cross-β Fibrils to Design Adjuvanted Nanovaccines
Al-Halifa et al., Nanomaterials / October 7, 2020
8. Highly Immunogenic Nanoparticles Based on a Fusion Protein Comprising the M2e of Influenza A Virus and a Lipopeptide
Zykova et al., Viruses / October 6, 2020
9. How Alaskan Yup’ik People Are Reviving the Culture Lost to the 1919 Flu
Natasha Frost, Atlas Obscura / October 5, 2020
10. Vaccine Effectiveness Against Pediatric Influenza Hospitalizations and Emergency Visits
Campbell et al., Pediatrics / October 5, 2020
11. Flu Season: Why 2020 is Different
Gary Finnegan, Vaccines Today / September 22, 2020
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