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Is it better to vaccinate against COVID and flu together, or separately?

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par Ángela Domínguez García, Catedrática Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Departamento de Medicina, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Universitat de Barcelona
Isabel Aguilar Palacio, Profesora Titular de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad de Zaragoza
Pere Godoy, Catedrático de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugía, Universidad de Lleida. CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública,, Universitat de Lleida

As autumn sets in and temperatures fall across the northern hemisphere, vaccination campaigns are getting underway. Vaccination is not just the most effective way to prevent severe forms of infection and avoid hospital admissions – it also protects health systems, preventing them from becoming overburdened when annual case numbers reach their peak.

The viruses that cause flu and COVID are constantly evolving, meaning we gradually lose any immunity we have acquired over time. The vaccines used in each campaign…

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