The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.

The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.

  • EtzBetz@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    I was all in for social distancing and so on for the time when covid was new and we didn’t have vaccines etc., but it also did a lot of damage to young people, me somewhat included. That idea has a good intention, but it will do more damage in other sectors than it does good in that sector.

    • umulu@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yes it did!

      I teach kids from ages ranging 12 to 18 and all the teachers agree there are skills missing from kids who had online classes during the pandemic.

      Kids close to 12 have difficulty reading Kids around 14 have serious gaps in computer knowledge.

      • exonac@feddit.de
        3·
        1 year ago

        These seem like skills that can easily be caught up on. I would be worried more about the social anxiety the isolation brought to children in early puberty. It’s heartbreaking to see them like that.

        • umulu@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s definitely worse. However, we haven’t noticed much of that.

          I would even argue that kids were eager to get reunited with their friends.