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Healthcare Workers Should Receive Seasonal Influenza Vaccine during COVID-19 Pandemic?

Hadir Fathy Abdel-Rahman Ibrahim 1, Aisha Aboul Fotouh 2 and Mohamed Farouk Allam 1, 2,*
1
Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
2
Department of Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Publihed in: Current Research in Public Health (Volume 2, Issue 1, 2022)
Page(s): 33-35
DOI: 10.31586/gjeid.2022.215
Received
December 21, 2021
Revised
March 16, 2022
Accepted
March 24, 2022
Published
March 26, 2022
Keywords
Coronavirus; COVID-19; Influenza; Vaccine; Healthcare Workers; Review
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Ibrahim, H. F. A. , Fotouh, A. A. , & Allam, M. F. (2022). Healthcare Workers Should Receive Seasonal Influenza Vaccine during COVID-19 Pandemic?. Current Research in Public Health, 2(1), 33-35. https://doi.org/10.31586/gjeid.2022.215
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Ibrahim, H. F. A. ; Fotouh, A. A. ; Allam, M. F. Healthcare Workers Should Receive Seasonal Influenza Vaccine during COVID-19 Pandemic?. Current Research in Public Health 2022 2(1), 33-35. https://doi.org/10.31586/gjeid.2022.215
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Ibrahim, Hadir Fathy Abdel-Rahman, Aisha Aboul Fotouh, and Mohamed Farouk Allam. 2022. "Healthcare Workers Should Receive Seasonal Influenza Vaccine during COVID-19 Pandemic?". Current Research in Public Health 2, no. 1: 33-35. https://doi.org/10.31586/gjeid.2022.215
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Ibrahim HFA, Fotouh AA, Allam MF. Healthcare Workers Should Receive Seasonal Influenza Vaccine during COVID-19 Pandemic?. Current Research in Public Health. 2022; 2(1):33-35. https://doi.org/10.31586/gjeid.2022.215 
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ABSTRACT = {It is known that seasonal influenza virus vaccination is important to be taken every year among healthcare workers (HCWs) to avoid transmission of influenza virus and its complications inside the workplace. The reason behind the importance of vaccination is that HCWs are at high risk to be infected with influenza virus. Among the studies addressing the rates of influenza vaccine status among HCWs, a study was conducted in three Middle East countries where the vaccination rates were 24.7%, 67.2%, and 46.4% in United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Oman, respectively. Now, after the pandemic of COVID-19 there are beliefs that vaccination with influenza virus could decrease the deaths from COVID-19. A recent retrospective cohort study to detect the effect of seasonal influenza vaccine on the deaths among COVID-19 patients showed that the individuals who didn’t take the influenza vaccine in the last year before being infected with COVID-19 had a higher risk of being hospitalized when compared with patients who took the vaccine. In conclusion, seasonal influenza vaccine could have an important role in the prevention of COVID-19. Seasonal influenza vaccine coverage should be improved among HCWs. New tailored health education programs to improve the attitudes and beliefs of HCWs towards seasonal influenza vaccine during the era of COVID-19 are strongly and urgently needed.},
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