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This Year’s Flu Vaccine: CDC Says How Effective It Is

February 21, 2020

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How is 45? Well, that depends on what you are talking about, of course. Eating 45 doughnuts in one sitting is probably not so good. Batting .450 in a Major League Baseball season? That’s good. All-time best good. A flu vaccine that’s 45% effective? That’s certainly not the all-time best. But it’s still better than it was measured to be this time last year: 29%.

The 45% number came from a report released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This report indicated that so far the flu vaccine has been an estimated 45% effective in preventing “influenza-associated medically attended acute respiratory illness.” Ummm, what the who attending a cute illness what? This may seem like a jumble of words if you don’t speak medical-ese.

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