Until a coronavirus vaccine is ready, pneumonia vaccines may reduce deaths from COVID-19
Robert Root-Bernstein, Michigan State University The yearly influenza season threatens to make the COVID-19 pandemic doubly deadly, but I believe that this isn’t inevitable. There are two commonly given vaccines – the pneumococcal vaccine and the Hib vaccine – that protect against bacterial pneumonias. These bacteria complicate both influenza and COVID-19, often leading to…