流感疫苗经济学

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为减少工作日损失而为员工提供流感疫苗的雇主可能无法获得任何经济效益。尽管早期一份报告表明,疫苗为企业每针节省了 46.85 美元,但昨天发表在《美国医学会杂志》上的研究表明,在大多数年份,为健康成人接种疫苗可能不具有成本效益。

但公平地说,当谈到流感疫苗时,评估成本效益是一项棘手的工作。当然,疫苗对老年人有帮助,他们更容易受到流感相关并发症的影响,但这些人不太可能在职。其他因素包括流感季节的严重程度,每年都有所不同,以及有时疫苗甚至与该季节流行的流感毒株不匹配的事实。密歇根大学流行病学家阿诺德·S·蒙托在随附的社论中说,总而言之,这项新研究表明,“考虑到即将到来的疫情规模的不可预测性,疫苗必须每年接种,除非有大量疾病需要预防,否则成本将超过收益。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大众科学 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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