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Volume 357:2728-2731 December 27, 2007 Number 26
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Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination

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by Nichol, K. L.
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To the Editor: In their article about the effectiveness of influenza vaccination in the community-dwelling elderly (Oct. 4 issue),1 Nichol and colleagues define the influenza season as the time from the reporting of the first isolate to the reporting of the last isolate, for each region and season. We are concerned that their analysis included deaths early and late in the season that were almost certainly unrelated to influenza and that could not have been prevented by vaccination. The actual period of elevated risk for influenza-related death is substantially shorter than the interval between the reporting of the first isolate . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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