More Flu Vaccines Helps Australian Health System

More Flu Vaccines Helps Australian Health System
Three 10-dose influenza virus vaccine vials are seen at Ballin Pharmacy in Chicago, Illinois on October 8, 2004. Tim Boyle/Getty Images
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Flu vaccine manufacturing is being ramped up this season in the hope higher public immunity to influenza will free up hospitals to focus on COVID-19.

Melbourne manufacturer Seqirus has partnered with the federal government to make an additional two million influenza vaccines for the 2020 flu season, with nine million vaccines in total to be distributed across the country.