Impact of flu vaccines on hospital burden

How well flu vaccines protect public health

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In this episode, Lauren Meyers explains what the 2022-2023 influenza season taught us about the effectiveness of flu vaccines.

In this episode, we cover:
•[00:00] Introduction
•[01:16] Computational epidemiologist Lauren Meyers introduces the health and hospitalization burden of seasonal influenza.
•[01:47] She defines vaccine effectiveness.
•[02:37] Meyers describes the features of the 2022-2023 flu season.
•[04:05] She describes how the researchers estimated the hospitalizations prevented by vaccination.
•[05:11] Meyers tells how vaccination of young adults protected adults over 65 years of age.
•[06:56] She describes the takeaways of the study for future flu seasons.
•[08:08] Meyers lists the caveats and limitations of the study.
•[09:49] Conclusion.

About Our Guest:

Lauren Meyers
Professor
University of Texas at Austin

View related content here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2505175122

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