Daily News | This year’s flu vaccines were particularly effective for children, a CDC report finds
Children who were received the latest flu vaccines were less likely to get sick enough to end up in a hospital, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, underscoring the value of vaccines after this year’s cold weather season saw local children’s hospital ERs overwhelmed by a “tridemic” wave of respiratory illnesses.
This year’s flu vaccines were particularly effective for children, reducing their risk of hospitalization and emergency department visits, the CDC found in new data released this week. The 2022 to 2023 flu season began earlier than usual and resulted in high rates of hospitalization among children. But vaccinated children were at a much lower risk of both illness and serious complications from the flu, the CDC reported in results fromVaccinated children, the CDC found, were 71% less likely to develop symptoms from the flu. Among children and adults younger than 65, those vaccinated against the flu were 54% less likely to require a doctor’s visit due to the flu.
The findings stress the important of getting vaccinated, CDC officials said — especially during this flu season, when people received the shots at lower rates than seen before the COVID-19 pandemic. Flu vaccine rates among children, pregnant women, and rural Americans have been especially low, the CDC said.In Philadelphia, as in much of the country, flu cases began rising this fall, peaking in the first week of December along with hospitalizations related to the flu.
The threat has now subsided from a so-called “tridemic” — a confluence of flu, COVID, and respiratory syntactical virus cases — that overwhelmed emergency departments in the region this winter. In December, emergency rooms at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children were
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