Welcome to Cosmos Science Daily, where journalists from the Cosmos newsroom report on the latest research and discoveries and explain the science behind the headline news. Today’s newsroom journalist and chemistry whiz, Ellen Phiddian, is talking about free flu vaccinations in Australia, with your host, Dr Sophie Calabretto, applied mathematician and fluid mechanist who has an irrational fear of needles but still gets her flu shot every year.

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