This year’s flu shot will be missing a strain of influenza it’s protected against for more than a decade.

That’s because there have been no confirmed flu cases caused by the Influenza B/Yamagata lineage since spring 2020. And the Food and Drug Administration decided this year that the strain now poses little to no threat to human health.

Scientists have concluded that widespread physical distancing and masking practiced during the early days of COVID-19 appear to have pushed B/Yamagata into oblivion.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Imagine if we didn’t have some meaningful percentage of the population being jackasses having Covid parties and more deciding that covering their face in public during a pandemic was some kind of politics bullshit…