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Flu advice in the U.S. news media changed during the COVID-19 pandemic but not the evidence

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Brown, E., Haslam, A. & Prasad, V. Flu advice in the U.S. news media changed during the COVID-19 pandemic but not the evidence. Eur J Epidemiol 38, 1115–1117 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-023-01037-w

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