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Until a coronavirus vaccine is ready, pneumonia vaccines may reduce deaths from COVID-19

  • Written by Robert Root-Bernstein, Professor of Physiology, Michigan State University
imageVaccination rates may be tied to rates of COVID-19.Marko Geber/Getty Images

The yearly influenza season threatens to make the COVID-19 pandemic doubly deadly, but I believe that this isn’t inevitable.

There are two commonly given vaccines – the pneumococcal vaccine and the Hib vaccine – that protect against bacterial pneumonias....

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