Flu News Friday: The Latest in Influenza Vaccines

April 3, 2020

Surveillance Update: at least 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths including 162 pediatric deaths so far this season from influenza

1. FluGen, UW-Madison researchers developing COVID-19 vaccine

David Wahlberg, Wisconsin State Journal / April 3, 2020

2. Chemical intervention of influenza virus mRNA nuclear export

Esparza et al, PLOS Pathogens / April 2, 2020

3. A Netflix series predicted a global pandemic. It was dismissed as ‘a show about the flu’

Meredith Blake, Chicago Tribune / April 2, 2020

4. What the author of ‘The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History’ can teach us about coronavirus

Jake Tapper, CNN / March 27, 2020

5. A Historian’s View of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Influenza of 1918

David Remnick, The New Yorker / March 25, 2020

6. Novavax’ NanoFlu Achieves All Primary Endpoints In Phase 3 Clinical Trial

Novavax / March 24, 2020

7. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19

Matthew Boyce and Rebecca Katz, PBS / March 18, 2020

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