Marc Lipsitch
Marc Lipsitch
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Right now, we can make roughly 60 million doses domestically of a normal flu vaccine in a normal year, ... But according to recent research, the total amount of antigen required to immunize a person against H5N1 is four times as much as the total amount in a normal flu shot. In a pandemic, nearly everyone would need flu vaccines, but with the current version, we could immunize only 15 million Americans, just over 5% of the country.
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Before this study, estimates were all over the map on the transmissibility of pandemic flu,
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The earlier work focused on the potential as they saw it and the difficulties of doing it once. And we're making the suggestion that doing it once might well not be enough.
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We can't predict what a virus we've never seen will do.