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Letter to the editor: The impact of influenza vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence and lessons for public health policies.
Paget, J., Caini, S., Cowling, B., Esposito, S., Falsey, A.R., Gentile, A., Kyncl, J., MacIntyre, C., Pitman, R., Lina, B. Letter to the editor: The impact of influenza vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence and lessons for public health policies. Vaccine: 2020, 38(42), p. 6485-6486. Letter to the editor
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In the light of the emergence of the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, the Wolff article – that appeared ahead of print in Vaccine in October 2019 – has been artfully manipulated by the anti-vaxxer community as an argument against influenza vaccination. As pointed out by GG Wolff himself in a recent letter, the study concerned the 2017–18 winter season, and the reported results have nothing to do with the novel Sars-CoV-2 virus, but represent four endemic coronavirus strains regularly circulating in the US.
In the light of the emergence of the coronavirus Sars-CoV-2, the Wolff article – that appeared ahead of print in Vaccine in October 2019 – has been artfully manipulated by the anti-vaxxer community as an argument against influenza vaccination. As pointed out by GG Wolff himself in a recent letter, the study concerned the 2017–18 winter season, and the reported results have nothing to do with the novel Sars-CoV-2 virus, but represent four endemic coronavirus strains regularly circulating in the US.