Children ages five to 17 years old make up the majority of those infected with the flu each year.
AstraZeneca submitted a request for the FDA on Wednesday to approve a self-administered nasal flu vaccine for people ages two to 49 years old. The vaccine, FluMist, would be the first at-home vaccine that would allow anyone 18 years of age and older to administer it to themselves and those underage.
Of those 9 million, approximately 100,000 went to the hospital and 5,000 died from the flu. Lisa Glasser, head of U.S. medical affairs, vaccines, and immune therapies at AstraZeneca, told Yahoo Finance Tuesday that the push for FDA approval stems from lessons learned during the Covid-19 pandemic. “We put in people’s hands nasal swabs to test for COVID, which people were very easily able to handle and continue to use,” Glasser said.
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