Coronavirus Daily: What You Missed This Week on Covid-19 – Bloomberg

Heres the latest news from the pandemic.

Epidemiologists have long feared a twin Covid-flu pandemic. This week, we learned that while omicron was surging across the U.S., the flu vaccine Americans received this year didnt work well enough to keepmild to moderate illness at bay.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday that the efficacy of this years flu-shot formulation was estimated at just 16%, which the federal health agency said is little different from simply going without the vaccine. To be sure, U.S. health officials still advocate vaccination for everyone except the youngest infants as long as the flu is circulating. And more, the data gave no indication of how good the shot was at preventing flu infections that could land someone in the hospital, or even kill.

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