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Three Proven Technologies in One Syringe: The Case for a Combination Flu Vaccine, and Who Built It

For two decades the effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccines in older people has sat below 50 percent in most years, and a new review in Expert Review of Vaccines argues that the reasons are well understood. The virus drifts antigenically between the time strains are selected by a WHO committee and the time they circulate, egg-based manufacturing in…