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Congress’ pandemic prep effort receives mixed reviews
Axios

Congress’ pandemic prep effort receives mixed reviews

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel says that Congress’ bipartisan PREVENT Pandemics Act isn’t fixing the aspects that led to a bad COVID response, which doesn’t bode well for future variants and pandemics.

‘Tripledemic’ underscores vaccine need
China Daily

‘Tripledemic’ underscores vaccine need

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues are developing a universal influenza vaccine that could prevent the next pandemic.

U.S. flu hospitalizations highest in a decade
Smithsonian Magazine

U.S. flu hospitalizations highest in a decade

Scott Hensley of the Perelman School of Medicine is nervous about the high rates of flu hospitalization and death going into the holiday season.