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為減少工作日損失而為員工提供流感疫苗的僱主可能無法獲得任何經濟效益。儘管早期一份報告表明,疫苗為企業每針節省了 46.85 美元,但昨天發表在《美國醫學會雜誌》上的研究表明,在大多數年份,為健康成人接種疫苗可能不具有成本效益。

但公平地說,當談到流感疫苗時,評估成本效益是一項棘手的工作。當然,疫苗對老年人有幫助,他們更容易受到流感相關併發症的影響,但這些人不太可能在職。其他因素包括流感季節的嚴重程度,每年都有所不同,以及有時疫苗甚至與該季節流行的流感毒株不匹配的事實。密歇根大學流行病學家阿諾德·S·蒙託在隨附的社論中說,總而言之,這項新研究表明,“考慮到即將到來的疫情規模的不可預測性,疫苗必須每年接種,除非有大量疾病需要預防,否則成本將超過收益。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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