Studies tied oseltamivir to lower odds of death, shorter hospital stays, and lower rates of readmission, and onradivir and oseltamivir to speedier symptom relief.
The loss of activity is equivalent to 15% of the US population becoming completely immobile for 1 day.
Adult COVID-19 patients also infected with the flu are 4 times more likely to need mechanical ventilation and 2.4 times more likely to die.
The roadmap offers a powerful opportunity to leverage advances in vaccine science to better protect against influenza, including pandemic flu.
The Influenza Vaccines Roadmaps Initiative newsletter highlights recent news, research, and events pertaining to influenza vaccine R&D.
A database of novel vaccine candidates that are designed to provide broader and more durable protection against influenza viruses.
Help support our work on influenza. Advance the work of CIDRAP in public health preparedness and emerging infectious disease response.
Receive the latest infectious disease information.
(CIDRAP News) An infrared heat detection device showed some promise as a way to quickly screen incoming patients for fever when it was tested during the H1N1 influenza pandemic last fall, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha reported recently.
(CIDRAP News) – Requiring healthcare workers to get vaccinated against influenza is one effective way to boost their vaccination rates, and another may be to target immunization messages to workers who are relatively isolated from coworkers, according to reports being presented this week at a conference on healthcare-associated infections.
(CIDRAP News) Though pandemic flu is circulating at low levels in many parts of the world, Thailand and some West African nations are reporting increased activity, and the virus is being edged out by influenza B in China and other Asian regions, with signs of westward spread, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today.
(CIDRAP News) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued updated numbers of illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for the H1N1 pandemic, new estimates that add an additional month of statistics to the agency's calculations but only slightly increase the overall toll.
Mar 4, 2010
Feb 26, 2010
(CIDRAP News) Racial minority groups have been more heavily impacted by pandemic H1N1 flu hospitalizations, with severe illness during the fall wave hitting American Indian and Alaska Native populations especially hard, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
(CIDRAP News) Winter influenza outbreaks in the United States typically follow periods of unusually low absolute humidity (AH), and this pattern suggests it may be possible to develop short-term forecasts of flu epidemics, according to a study published this week.
