Making of the Flu Vaccine Better

This year's flu vaccine was ineffective because the prevalent strain had already mutated by the time everyone got the shot.

Here's why it happened:

It's unknown whether the disaster could have been averted. But ... it was enabled by the WHO's old-fashioned approach: The meeting was open only to select invitees, depriving them of the expertise of other virologists and geneticists. Data used to justify their decision was released only afterward, in limited form. The genomes of circulating flu strains weren't shared with the scientific community.

Much like the bird flu strains are openly and quickly shared with scientists around the world, the same could be done for influenza.

Make it happen, because I want to start taking the vaccine myself.