
By BY SHEILA KAPLAN, KATHERINE J. WU AND KATIE THOMAS from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3gTiVYA


The truth is that the bouncing ball of mortality projections has more to do with the inconsistent quality of the data from medical surveillance around the world.
A new poll from WebMD finds that acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine is gradually growing, with 54.6% of readers saying they would get one in the first year. That number increased slightly from a WebMD poll released in July,
Since health officials started tracking it in 2003, effectiveness of the flu shot has varied from year to year, averaging at 40%.