As always, everyone:
#GetYourFluShot and ensure likewise for any children you care for.
As for COVID vaccines.
"More kids are severely ill or dying from the flu, CDC reports"
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/flu-vaccines-children-complication-cdc-deaths-rcna233436
COVID vaccine for this year managed; without any need for a prescription.
Get your boosters, #Minnesota .
And #GetYourFluShot too.
And get your COVID shots too.
QT Michael Busch
@michael-w-busch.bsky.social
2025 August 10
I keep thinking about how my grandfather was one of three brothers before the 1918 influenza pandemic and one of two brothers after.
But apparently far too many people missed that lesson.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2lr6vz6oda5xryr4rnoqw7s7/post/3lw2iovyhhc2i
#GetYourFluShot and ensure that any kids you care for do the same.
And, yet again, USA:
#ImpeachRFKJr and remove him & all the vaccine denialists with him from government.
#GetYourFluShot. And ensure that any children you care for do likewise.
QT Julia Raifman, ScD
@juliaraifman.bsky.social
2025 May 19
Each child death is an immense tragedy. Dr. Sean O’Leary highlights declining flu vaccination rates are contributing to the highest rate of child flu deaths in 15 years.
“There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but
A big one is that fewer children are getting flu shots.”
https://apnews.com/article/flu-deaths-children-cdc-e79b1e4169d629ad4bc1095d95d82110
https://bsky.app/profile/juliaraifman.bsky.social/post/3lpjqn2ss4c2h
More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said 216 pediatric deaths already have been reported. That eclipses the 207 reported the previous flu season, and is the most since the 2009-2010 H1N1 global flu pandemic. There are likely several contributors to this season’s severity, but one pediatric infectious diseases specialist says a big one is that fewer children are getting flu shots. Flu vaccinations may not prevent people from getting sick, but research shows they do prevent hospitalizations and deaths.
As always, everyone:
#GetYourFluShot and ensure that any children you care for do likewise.
QT Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
2025 May 2
There has been a significant reduction in the number of kids getting the flu vaccine over the past 5 years—a drop from 64% to 49%.
Consequently, there have been 216 pediatric flu deaths so far this flu season, the highest number since the swine flu 15 years ago (link below).
Vaccinate.
https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethjacobs.bsky.social/post/3lo7ll7krt227
There has been a significant reduction in the number of kids getting the flu vaccine over the past 5 years—a drop from 64% to 49%. Consequently, there have been 216 pediatric flu deaths so far this flu season, the highest number since the swine flu 15 years ago (link below). Vaccinate.
As every year, USA:
#GetYourFluShot and ensure that any children you care for do likewise. And similarly for COVID.
QT Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social
2024 December 12
NBC: “Flu shots fall among kids, hitting their lowest point in years: The U.S. last year hit a grim milestone: the most pediatric flu deaths since before the pandemic.”
https://bsky.app/profile/scottgottliebmd.bsky.social/post/3ld5nq26xas2d
NBC: “Flu shots fall among kids, hitting their lowest point in years: The U.S. last year hit a grim milestone: the most pediatric flu deaths since before the pandemic.” https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/flu-cases-rising-kids-vaccine-rates-low-cdc-rcna177336
Double vaxed as of this morning: COVID booster and flu shot. Let maximum invincibility commence!
Melinda from Atlanta
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