[Timber Rattler]

I got my flu shot in October and it did NOT work. I came down with a physician confirmed case of the flu last week, and am just now getting over it. The current medical spin is that the vaccine does not necessarily guarantee that you won't get the flu, but that it will lessen the symptoms.

Whatever.

I want my $30 back.

[Mamzelle]

The idea of vaccine protecting the public is to create a kind of firewall against infection. It doesn’t work as well for individuals, but you were immunized for a lot of infections just by having so many people immunized. So if half of the vaccines work for a particular pathogen, it works.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Wasn’t there a recall or something? I remember that my pharmacy, which gives shots, stopped for a while. Maybe it was the “delivery system?” They might have been using those “airgun” things. Anyway, what I do recall was that something wasn’t effective.

[chessplayer]

I got my flu shot in October and it did NOT work. I came down with a physician confirmed case of the flu last week, and am just now getting over it. The current medical spin is that the vaccine does not necessarily guarantee that you won’t get the flu, but that it will lessen the symptoms.

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No, there is no money back guarantee it will prevent you from getting it. There has NEVER been a guarantee it will prevent it. But it can still reduce the severity of it if someone gets it. That can mean the difference between surviving or dying for the elderly.

[EEGator]

The are many strains of the flu. The medical community makes an educated guess as to which strain will infect people on a given year. Somehow I doubt you could do better.

[pfflier]

The flu shot protects against previously known and the most prevalent strains of flu. In essence you got protection up to last year’s known threats.

[steve86]

The current medical spin is that the vaccine does not necessarily guarantee that you won't get the flu, but that it will lessen the symptoms.

Has been considered 70% effective from the beginning.

I personally consider it a good investment. That other 30% can be pretty rough.

[sarasota]

Never get them. Never will.

[cuban leaf]

I’m 59. I’ve never had a flu shot. I’ve also not had anything like the flu in my adult life as far as I can remember.

Doesn’t mean I won’t die of it this year, but still...

[editor-surveyor]

>> “I got my flu shot in October and it did NOT work. I came down with a physician confirmed case of the flu last week, and am just now getting over it” <<

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What do you think the flu shot is for?

If nobody got the shot, there wouldn’t be any cases of the ‘new’ flu. If the flu dies, the med mafia loses billions.