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Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

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Adult and pediatric patients who received 2023-2024 influenza vaccines exhibited reduced risk for influenza-associated encounters across care settings.

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The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for encouragement and support for this work. NIH Awards (R37DA025576; R01MH085259) also support SK ...