🧪FLU VACCINE EFFECTIVENESS—Everyone is asking if flu vaccine works this year or not… short answer is YES. Long answer—UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) report that the 2025/26 formulated vaccine is currently ~75% effective at preventing Emergency Room visits and 73% hospital admission in children aged 2 to 17 years, while 30 to 40% effective in adults for ER and hospital admissions. Not perfect but still decent for adults, and great for kids. But why is there a vaccine-flu partial mismatch? New H3N2 VARIANT of Subclade K. So… at the end of the southern hemisphere (SH) 2025 influenza season and the start of the northern hemisphere (NH) 2025/26 season (ie too late to remake this year’s vaccine formula), a rapid increase in influenza A(H3N2) subclade K (formerly J.2.4.1) incidence was observed, with subclade K projected to dominate among H3N2 viruses during the 2025/26 season [1-3]. This marks a notable A(H3N2) virus evolution after the current seasonal 2025-26 vaccine strains were selected (based on the J.2 subclade). ➡️Do not let anti vaxxers try to tell you vaccines don’t work at all. They do by LOWERING YOUR RISK, even with mismatch it still lowers your risk by a lot, especially for kids! Get your flu shot. Tell your family and friends. 🙏 eurosurveillance.org/content…

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I don't think people appreciate how difficult it is to diagnose #H5N1 #AvianFlu with the current diagnostics. As @camwolfe recently mentioned, If a person comes into the hospital and we run a test on the current PCR multiplex platforms, most don't differentiate “untypeable” Flu-A subtypes.

The mystery of vaccine effectiveness goes on. Now let's do...tetanus! To be fair it IS hard to see a trend there. Need more research. That's all RFK Jr wants, right? And anyway - what's the big deal about a touch of tetanus? #VaccinesWork

Congratulations to @nischalr3 and his team for their paper being selected as the @TheTxIDjournal 2024 Bob Rubin Clinical Impact Awardee - this award selects the paper felt to have the biggest impact on clinical care in #TxID! Congrats! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

1:37 to play and Kade Reynoldson pins them on the 5!