The mass media makes a lot of the supposed ineffectiveness of this season's flu vaccine program, yet reports often fail to tell the whole story. For example, news stories sounded the alarm about vaccine effectiveness (VE) of 36% for the 2017-2018 season (through February 3, 2018), but this is not unprecedented: The VE of the H3N2 component of the flu vaccine in the 2012-2013 season was just 3% more efficacious-protecting 39% of immunized individuals.
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