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Posted February 10, 2020 11:29:58As the first days of the flu season approach, many hospitals have begun to make changes to their protocols to allow for more flu-friendly patients.
But while the flu is a dangerous and debilitating illness, the flu vaccine is one of the most popular vaccines for young children.
In the US, the vaccination rate for all children aged 2 to 18 years is 95 percent, and is expected to remain stable until the end of 2019.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of flu vaccination for children ages 2 to 17 has increased by about 3 percent annually.
However, the number of children receiving flu shots at this age is decreasing.
In 2020, the CDC reported that there were fewer than 4,200 children under the age of 2 who received flu shots in the US.
As the flu seasons become longer and more severe, parents have been asking for a flu shot for their children.
The CDC reports that flu shots are available at over 200 hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities nationwide.
However they vary widely in their effectiveness.
Some hospitals have increased their vaccination rates and others have decreased their coverage.
Some hospital administrators have begun offering flu shots, but others have refused to.
In some instances, hospitals have changed their policies because they were already seeing a spike in cases.
According to the CDC, the percentage of flu-related hospitalizations among the most-affected hospitals rose from 13 percent in December to 22 percent in January.
In many instances, the increase in flu-like illnesses is attributed to the increased number of cases.
In one recent example, the Centers For Disease Control reported that in the first three months of this year, there were nearly 4,500 flu-associated hospitalizations, up from about 1,400 in the previous three months.
But the CDC also found that the flu has increased hospitalizations in the last three months in several other hospitals.
The number of flu cases in the hospital system has also increased dramatically over the past few years, according to a report from the Center for Health and Risk Communication.
The CDC reported in its report that the number and type of hospitalizations for flu- related illnesses has increased at an average rate of 5.6 percent per month over the last five years.
And this year alone, the average hospitalization rate rose nearly 7 percent.
Many hospitals are also finding that it’s not a good idea to administer a flu vaccine to children who have had a flu-specific infection.
As a result, the amount of vaccine administered to children aged between 2 and 17 has decreased.
In fact, the vaccine was given only to children under 2 years old.
This change was announced by the Centers To Prevent and Control Disease in January 2018.
However, some hospitals are not offering flu vaccine at all, which means that there are still many children in the United States who have not received a flu vaccination.
This situation could change in the near future.
According the CDC , flu vaccines for children under age 18 have not been widely distributed, and it is not clear whether the vaccine will be available to them or not.
The majority of flu vaccine available in the U.S. is made by Merck.
However some countries are using a third-party vaccine company, which makes vaccines made by Sanofi Pasteur and other companies.
While the flu vaccination rate has been increasing over the years, the US vaccine is only being distributed to children ages 3 to 5 years old, according the CDC.
However a change in policy could bring more children with flu infections to hospitals, where they may be exposed to more flu virus.
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