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The Troubling Trends Pointing to a Severe Flu and RSV Season
Flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season has just begun in the northern hemisphere, and the consensus among experts is that the 2022-2023 season is shaping up to be more severe than in the past few (relatively mild) years. It might even be worse than seasons before COVID-19. Health data company IQVIA has been analyzing data from insurance claims filed by doctors’ offices, hospitals, and urgent care centers in the country for three decades, and focused on case trends over the previous year. The team found that diagnoses of flu are already tracking at record highs. Even before flu season began, back in spring 2...
Source: TIME: Health - October 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Charts by Emily Barone Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Evaluating the impact of COVID-19 on asthma morbidity: a comprehensive analysis of potential influencing factors
CONCLUSION: Our data confirm reduced healthcare utilization and suggest better asthma control during COVID-19, except for African Americans. This was associated with a significant increase in telehealth visits and reductions in PM2.5 and influenza infections, but not better asthma controller adherence.PMID:33775900 | DOI:10.1016/j.anai.2021.03.018
Source: Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology - March 29, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Olga L Guijon Tricia Morphew Morphew Consulting Louis Ehwerhemuepha Stanley P Galant Source Type: research

Factors Associated with Intention to Receive Influenza and Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccines during Pregnancy: A Focus on Vaccine Hesitancy and Perceptions of Disease Severity and Vaccine Safety
This study has some important limitations. Since data were collected by self-report and not verified with medical records or vaccine registry data, there is potential for recall bias. Any recall bias which may have been introduced is assumed to have been non-differential with respect to characteristics likely to be associated with intention to receive antenatal influenza and/or Tdap vaccines. Additionally, while we excluded women who indicated having received an influenza and/or Tdap vaccine before completing her baseline survey, some women enrolled from intervention arm practices could have been exposed to the vaccine pro...
Source: PLOS Currents Outbreaks - February 25, 2015 Category: Epidemiology Authors: achamberlain Source Type: research

Development of binary forecast models of asthma exacerbation: Asthma index
Conclusions: Our binary forecasting model may improve the prediction of asthma exacerbation in a clinical setting.
Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 23, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Oh, J.-W., Kim, J.-H., Chang, Y.-S., Sohn, K.-T. Tags: 5.3 Allergy and Immunology Source Type: research

10 Good Reasons To Get A Flu Shot
By Melaina Juntti for Men's Journal How many times have you heard you should get a flu shot? There's good reason for the hype: Over the past few years, the influenza vaccine has prevented millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although an increasing number of people are getting vaccinated every year, more than half of American men still aren't doing it, for a variety of reasons, most of which aren't backed by science. "Men have this macho sense that if they do get the flu, they can tough it out," says William Schaffner, M.D., chair...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news