COVID-19 sufferers who require surgical procedure seem to face fewer issues if they’ve beforehand been vaccinated in opposition to the flu, new information advised on Tuesday.
In a preliminary examine that has not but undergone peer evaluate, researchers analyzed outcomes after numerous forms of surgical procedure on practically 44,000 COVID-19 sufferers worldwide, half of whom had obtained a flu vaccine within the earlier six months.
In a presentation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1072751521006700 on the annual assembly of the American Faculty of Surgeons, they reported that flu-vaccinated sufferers had considerably fewer critical blood infections, fewer probably life-threatening blood clots of their veins, fewer critical wound-healing issues, and fewer coronary heart assaults.
The flu vaccine was additionally linked with decrease charges of stroke, pneumonia and loss of life.
The examine can’t show that flu vaccines had been protecting, and “the flu shot is in no way an alternative to COVID-19 vaccination,” stated examine chief Susan Taghioff of the College of Miami Miller Faculty of Drugs in Florida.
“We strongly advocate that everybody get each their flu and COVID-19 vaccines this 12 months in accordance with present pointers.”
(Reuters)