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Getting the flu jab while pregnant doesn’t increase the baby’s risk of being diagnosed with autism later on, another study has found. Researchers in Sweden compared autism diagnoses among seven-year-old children whose mothers had a swine flu vaccine during pregnancy and those whose did not. Of almost 70,000 children, 39,700 had been exposed to the … Read more
Hope for a universal flu vaccine? Scientists discover which immune cells a shot MUST target to provide ‘long-lasting’ protection Flu shots are only about 40 to 60 percent effective in any given year Scientists think prior exposures to flu strains or vaccines trigger a partial response to vaccines, weakening a shot’s protection against new strains … Read more
Coronavirus deaths fall to ANOTHER low: Flu and pneumonia are now killing six times more people as just 152 Covid-19 fatalities were recorded across England and Wales in most recent week – the fewest since before lockdown Flu and pneumonia killed 1,013 people in England and Wales in week up to August 7, according to … Read more
Coronavirus had likely already spread to thousands of people in Seattle before the Washington city became home to the first known US case of COVID0-19, new research reveals. University of Texas (UT), Austin, scientists created a model to estimate how many people had coronavirus based on recently re-tested samples taken from hundreds of samples take … Read more
THOUSANDS of people in Seattle who thought they had flu last winter likely had coronavirus, study finds Testing of samples taken from more than 2,000 people suspected of having flu in Seattle last year revealed 25 had coronavirus A predictive model made by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, estimates that about 9,000 people … Read more
The 1918 Spanish flu was more deadly of fatalities in New York City than coronavirus has been in 2020 – but COVID-19 drove up the death toll for the first several months of the year far beyond. what would be seen in a typical year, a new study finds. At the peak of New York … Read more
More Britons have been killed by flu and pneumonia than coronavirus for seven weeks in a row, new data reveals Influenza caused more deaths in UK than Covid-19 between June 19 and July 31 Flu and pneumonia killed 6,626 Britons compared to 2,992 coronavirus deaths Influenza killed almost five times as many people as Covid-19 … Read more
Drive-through flu vaccines are set to be given in doctors’ car parks in a bid to stop a potential second wave of coronavirus combining with winter illnesses. Ministers are planning to get more than 30million people vaccinated against the flu to protect the NHS from the threat of double viruses later this year. Experts have … Read more
Donald Trump is criticized for saying ‘1917’ Spanish Flu pandemic ended World War Two – which did not begin until 1939 Trump said the Spanish Flu pandemic ‘probably ended the Second World War’ The events took place more than two decades apart, with WWII starting in 1939 A White House official confirmed Trump had meant to refer … Read more
Trump is mocked for claiming ‘1917’ Spanish Flu pandemic ended World War Two – which did not begin until 1939 Trump said the Spanish Flu pandemic ‘probably ended the Second World War’ The events took place more than two decades apart, with WWII starting in 1939 A White House official confirmed Trump had meant to refer to … Read more