Clarification
25.05.2021
New Delhi
The headline ‘Flu shots to kids before monsoon will curb Covid cases: Maha panel’ carried in some TOI editions on Monday was erroneous. The report does not suggest it. It focused on the Indian Academy of Paediatrics’s recommendation to give seasonal flu shots to children below 5 years and those with co-morbidities so that cases of children getting seriously sick or hospitalised with influenza would reduce. This would, in turn, help decongest hospitals, reduce the demand for RT-PCR tests and free up beds should Covid cases see a rise. Influenza and Covid are caused by different viruses and there is no evidence to suggest that flu vaccine offers direct protection against Covid.
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