NEW DELHI : Children who receive a seasonal flu shots are less likely to suffer symptoms from a covid-19 infection, shows a new research done by the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia.The study titled--The flu vaccination may have a protective effect on the course of covid-19 in the pediatric population: when does SARS-Cov-2 meet influenza-- recently published in the journal Cureus, was done on more than 900 children diagnosed with covid-19 in 2020.Also Read | Vaccination drive picks up slowly"It is known that the growth of one virus can be inhibited by a previous viral infection.
This phenomenon is called virus interference, and it can occur even when the first virus invader is an inactivated virus, such as the case with.