Flu News Friday: The Latest in Influenza Vaccines

The Influenzer Initiative
2 min readOct 30, 2020

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October 30, 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.

Surveillance for COVID-19 is available on COVIDView.

1. Blue Water Vaccines Announces Development of Vaccine Candidates to Address G4 EA H1N1 Swine Influenza Virus and Streptococcus Pneumoniae

BioSpace/ Oct 29 2020

2. Cash injection: join the hunt for a coronavirus vaccine

Dr. Matthew Partridge, Money Week / Oct 29 2020
Covid-19 has renewed interest in preventing the spread of viruses. But the appeal of this rapidly growing sub-sector of the pharmaceuticals market should endure far beyond the pandemic, and support UIV development.

3. Universal Flu Vaccines Yield Second Clinical Failure This Year

Jonathan Smith, LABIOTECH / Oct 29 2020

4. Masking terminal neo-epitopes of linear peptides through glycosylation favours immune responses towards core epitopes producing parental protein bound antibodies

Robert Pon et al, Nature Scientific Reports / Oct 28, 2020

5.TFF Pharmaceuticals Announces Positive Preclinical Results with University of Georgia Universal Influenza Vaccines

TFF Pharmaceutical Press Release / October 27, 2020

6.A Flu Shot Might Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Early Research Suggests

Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American / October 27, 2020

7. Solving the Mysteries of Ancient Plagues

James Close, Scientific American / November 2020 Issue

8. The 1918 Flu Faded in Our Collective Memory: We Might ‘Forget’ the Coronavirus, Too

Scott Hershberger, Scientific American / November 2020 Issue

9.The race to detect tomorrow’s diseases today

Adam Green, Financial Times / October 18, 2020

10. This Isn’t the First Time America Has Voted During a Pandemic. Here’s How the 1918 Flu Affected That Year’s Election

Olivia Waxman, TIME Magazine / October 16, 2020

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