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.

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
    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
      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.