This year's flu vaccine doesn't match the dominant strain, but should people get it anyway? Yes, because the shot still prevents severe disease and death, microbiologist Scott Hensley says:
As omicron sweeps across the U.S., there's another virus Americans need to watch out for.
“In some ways, we're kind of sitting ducks right now,” he says. “It's certainly a good thing that flu didn’t circulate over the last two years. But what we're left with are very low levels of immunity in many of us.”This year's flu vaccine doesn't match the dominant strain, but Hensley encourages Americans to get the shot anyway.
What’s happening now with omicron happens with the flu every year. This year, there has been a major antigenic drift in the H3N2 variant of the flu, he says. Breakthrough omicron infections in vaccinated people display why folks should still get the shot, he says.
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