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Flu shot protects against severe effects of COVID-19, study finds
Science Daily ^ | August 4, 2021 | Univ. of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Posted on 10/13/2021 1:11:45 PM PDT by tflabo

In a newly published study, physician-scientists at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have shown that the flu vaccine may provide vital protection against COVID-19......Although it isn't exactly known yet how the flu vaccine provides protection against COVID-19, most theories speculate that the flu shot may boost the innate immune system. The results, said study authors, strongly suggest that the flu vaccine may protect against several severe effects of COVID-19.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: flushotsandcovid
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Thank you. My anxiety was rising.


21 posted on 10/13/2021 1:35:07 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: tflabo

given who makes them

why would you consider anything they make safe for you

why do you still trust them


22 posted on 10/13/2021 1:36:52 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; All

Loving the discussion on this thread and inputs. Personally I’d rather not take the flu shot either although with no ill effects taking it through the years. If I were a younger man I’d skip ALL the vax shots but here at 65 trying to find the least riskiest option while providing some protection. Then again the trust and integrity factor with these vaccines is shot to hell unfortunately.


23 posted on 10/13/2021 1:40:59 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny )
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To: tflabo

Which flu shot? There used to be a new one every year based on the prevalent strain.

Hardly any flu reported last year. Same this year.

Is this the 2019 flu shot?


24 posted on 10/13/2021 1:42:29 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: DSH; organicchemist

Well, to me, it does not matter. I don’t take the flu shots ever, and I’ll never take the covid non-vax. I’ve had the flu and I’ve had covid, the flu was ten times worse then covid.


25 posted on 10/13/2021 1:42:52 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: tflabo

3, 2, 1, That can not be allowed, we can not let the sheeple avoid the JAB. Time to put an end to that.


26 posted on 10/13/2021 1:43:32 PM PDT by MAAG (for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal)
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To: fruser1

Very little flu last year which coincides with record low flu vaccine administered. 🤔


27 posted on 10/13/2021 1:48:14 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: tflabo
Covid IS the flu. The flu IS covid.

28 posted on 10/13/2021 1:54:35 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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To: tflabo
When I was in my mid 30's my personal doctor explained that there are 65 known flu viruses in the world, and that I had probably had them all, and that is why my son and younger wife would get sick and I would not.

I have never had a flu shot.

29 posted on 10/13/2021 1:55:56 PM PDT by MAAG (for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal)
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To: tflabo; impimp

Oh NOOOO!!!

Does this mean the flubros were right? It’s just the flu??


30 posted on 10/13/2021 1:58:28 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: JoSixChip
Well, to me, it does not matter. I don’t take the flu shots ever, and I’ll never take the covid non-vax. I’ve had the flu and I’ve had covid, the flu was ten times worse then covid.

I've never taken the flu shot either. It was years before I even realized that the flu shot was a "thing."

A very large (i.e., large in terms of the amount of clinical data in back of it) study out of the U.K.'s NHS demonstrated pretty conclusively that, as a public health measure intended to benefit the geriatric population, the flu shot was perfectly worthless. That is to say, at a population level, there was no statistically-significant difference in adverse outcomes (i.e., hospitalization and/or death) between those in the geriatric cohort who took the flu shot and those who did not. Accordingly, the public health "recommendation" that the elderly get the flu shot each year was without warrant.

To each his own, I guess. For my part, I'm looking to finish out my time in this present life with the immune system God gave me, unadorned with some synthetic supplement provided by the drug-pusher set (i.e., Big Pharma, Inc.).

31 posted on 10/13/2021 1:59:07 PM PDT by DSH
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And the natural immunity reminder... notice the lag in the vax rollout




32 posted on 10/13/2021 2:14:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: tflabo

“THEY” want you to take the gene therapy MRNA shot.
The flu shot propaganda has been decades of conditioning for the gullible that shots are “safe” & “effective” and any adverse effects are “rare”.

I’ll take my chances with natural immunity since almost everybody has probably had Covid by now.


33 posted on 10/13/2021 2:18:26 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I agree. I also heard they are planning to use mRNA technology for flu shots in the future. I’m done.


34 posted on 10/13/2021 2:19:04 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: tflabo

Have taken the flu shot every year. Will give it a miss this year. What with the cdc idiots talking about adding covid rna vax to the flu vax for a combined shot, and reading more than once about folks being given rna covid jab instead of flu vaccine (by accident of course). It just doesn’t give a warm fuzzy trusting feeling about what would actually be getting injected into my arm this year.


35 posted on 10/13/2021 2:20:51 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: tflabo

But honestly, LOTS of people probably got their regular flu shots last year, seniors too, and it didn’t seem to help then? So what’s up here? I’m just conditioned now to question any “msm/govt research report” on any medicine. It’s like if msm says good then I think bad, and if they say it’s bad then I think probably not just bad for big biz and pharma. Is that wrong?


36 posted on 10/13/2021 2:21:08 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: tflabo
Flu shot protects against severe effects of COVID-19, study finds

Oh be quiet, I'm busy eating my horse paste

37 posted on 10/13/2021 2:26:12 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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To: tflabo
Don't get the flu vaccine!

Fauci has previously said that he wanted to combine the flu vaccine and the Covid vaccine. You see? That's a way to get around the right to refuse Covid 'vaccines'.

Have you noticed we don't have flu anymore? In 2020, 38 million annual 'flu' disapeared. So why do we need a flu vaccine? Why won't Covid just disappear for no reason like the flu? (HINT: Flu was reclassified as Covid. They need Covid to lock down the country and enslave us.)


38 posted on 10/13/2021 2:27:39 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: tflabo

I wouldn’t trust the flu shot going forward.


39 posted on 10/13/2021 2:29:12 PM PDT by Old Yeller (You can’t obey your way out of tyranny.)
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To: tflabo

The flu vaccine kicks the immune system into high gear to produce flu antibodies. It’s possible that the immune system being in high gear also makes it attack covid that much sooner.


40 posted on 10/13/2021 2:33:43 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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