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Physicians should encourage all patients 6 months of age and older to get vaccinated against influenza this season, regardless of egg allergy. The ACIP’s updated guidance is based on the latest scientific evidence and is designed to help protect patients from influenza.

A chart review of 81 million individuals yielded two matched groups of more than 150,000 patients each: one with COVID and the other with influenza. In these populations, the risk of seizures and epilepsy was higher in the COVID group. The HR of epilepsy after COVID compared with influenza was highest in individuals who were not hospitalized and in those under the age of 16.

The researchers put a theory to the test by administering the compound CBL0137 to melanoma mouse models. This compound causes the same type of highly inflammatory cell death that the influenza virus causes, but it does so directly in cancerous tissue. The resulting antiviral response alerted the immune system. It heated up a “cold” tumor so that, when combined with immunotherapy, the host immune system recognized cancer as something to be destroyed.

In a cohort study of more than 2 million patients, influenza vaccination was associated with a 22% to 24% lower risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. But more than half of that effect seems to be that healthier people are more likely to be vaccinated for flu.

All vaccines are expected to be quadrivalent. Included in the update are expanded approval for Flucelvax Quadrivalent, administration adjustments for Afluria Quadrivalent, and higher dose vaccines for those 65 years old and older.

A 59-year-old man is hospitalized with a five-day history of nonproductive cough and fever. The patient reports that he recreationally breeds carrier pigeons and reports no travel outside of the United States. After a physical exam and chest radiograph, what is the most likely cause of this patient’s symptoms?