The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.

    • ForestOrca@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      19
      ·
      1 year ago

      The most interesting thing about this result is that it was achieved thru behavioral change (masking, hand washing, distancing, isolation), and not technologic advancement. We have the capability, with cooperation to significantly alter the infectious disease landscape.

      • Jax@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        1 year ago

        Human beings, when working together, quite literally are the strongest biological force on Earth. There is very little we can’t do when working together.

        Key phrase: together.