Flu shot dramatically reduces the risk young children will be hospitalized

Getting a flu vaccine helps keep young children out of the hospital, according to new research based, in part, on data from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
Research from Public Health Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences found that the risk of hospitalization from flu infection dropped 60 per cent among young children who were fully vaccinated.
Even those who were only partially vaccinated (meaning they received just one of two required doses during their