By IDSE News Staff
It is looking like influenza vaccination is still a good bet, even if the vaccine is not a good match to circulating strains.
Influenza vaccination protected children against serious illness even when they were infected with a strain that was antigenically different from ones contained in the vaccine, according to a recent report that looked at data from the 2019-2020 influenza season.
During that season, there was a record-breaking 199 influenza deaths among children. Most flu