New CDC Reports Shows Benefits of Flu Vaccine Last Season But Fewer Than Half of Americans Say They Have Been Vaccinated this Season | News (Flu) | CDC

New CDC Reports Shows Benefits of Flu Vaccine Last Season But Fewer Than Half of Americans Say They Have Been Vaccinated this Season | News (Flu) | CDC

Benefits of Flu Vaccination

 

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported that flu vaccination last season prevented an estimated 7.2 million flu-associated illnesses and 90,000 flu hospitalizations. The agency also said that only 40% of people in the U.S. had reported getting a flu vaccine this season as of early November 2014, numbers similar to the estimates from this time last season.

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