IDWeek: MPH Program graduate learned from last year’s “not perfect” flu vax
The flu vaccine last season was almost completely ineffective at preventing the disease, but it might have helped some people stay out of hospital, researchers reported here."The flu vaccine is not perfect and it varies in efficacy from year to year," commented H. Keipp Talbot, MD, MPH, of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville. If there's a clinical lesson from the 2014-15 flu season, it's that people should get their shot, but if they get the flu, their doctors should consider antiviral medications.