JAMA: Vaccinating Kids Protects Unvaccinated Adults [Mike the Mad Biologist]
I've argued many times on this blog that an influenza vaccination policy, as opposed to the non-policy we currently have, would focus on vaccinating the people who are likely to spread the disease. Or as Yogi Berra might have put it, you can't get the flu from someone who doesn't have it.
So who are these germ dispersal units? Children, which why I've remarked that grandparents are being killed by their grandchildren. Theoretical work has suggested that vaccinating 80% of children could massively reduce influenza in the rest of the population. We've also seen the effect of child vaccination with Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccination.
Well, somebody decided to practice TEH SCIENTISMZ! and see if that hypothesis holds for influenza.
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