Posted on 11/15/2023 9:31:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Covid and flu shots can be safely given at the same time, and according to a small new study, doing so may even confer benefits.
Findings presented Monday at the Vaccines Summit Boston, an annual scientific conference, suggest that giving Covid and flu shots together could produce a stronger antibody response against the coronavirus than administering the vaccines separately.
The study measured the antibody levels of 42 health care workers in Massachusetts who were vaccinated last fall. Twelve of the participants received a bivalent Covid booster and seasonal influenza shot on the same day. Another 30 received the shots on different days within the span of a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Last week they were saying getting them together increased the stroke risk in seniors.
Hubby and I got our Covid updated booster and annual influenza vaccines at the same time. We’ll get the RSV vaccine later, because Walgreen’s wouldn’t give us three at a time.
I love being vaccinated. That means my immune system is trained and ready to fight against those nasty viruses.
Anytime you see “according to a small new study” they are trying to kill you even faster.
You do realize it damages your immune system.
NBC - Nothing But Crap
Annual Influenza Jabs are not Needed!: Peter C. GøtzschePETER C. GØTZSCHE NOVEMBER 15, 2023
People all over the world, particularly the elderly, are being nudged by the authorities to get an annual vaccination against influenza, but it is not at all obvious that this is a good idea. In fact, there are several reasons to be skeptical.
First, the preventive effect is small. Twenty-nine people would need to be vaccinated to avoid one case of influenza-like illness and 71 people to avoid one case of influenza, and the vaccination does not reduce hospital admissions or days off work.
Second, as the virus mutates quite rapidly, the effect obtained by vaccination will likely be smaller than in the randomized trials.
Third, the vaccine has negative effects on the immune system. Canadian researchers showed in four different studies that people who received a seasonal influenza vaccine in 2008 had an increased risk of getting infected with another strain in 2009.
Fourth, all vaccines cause harms, which can potentially be serious. Pandemrix, one of the influenza vaccines used during the 2009-2010 pandemic, caused narcolepsy in children and adolescents with a certain tissue type. Up to several years after vaccination of children and adolescents, people may suddenly start falling asleep while engaging in their normal activities, and there is no cure.
Fifth, we should always consider the likelihood of getting infected without vaccination. Influenza pandemics are uncommon and rarely involve large portions of the population. In any given year, the likelihood of acquiring influenza if unvaccinated is therefore very small. I never had an influenza vaccination, and my wife, a professor in clinical microbiology, never had one, and together, we have perhaps had influenza twice for 135 years. But we don’t know. When people say they have influenza, it usually just means an influenza-like illness of which there are many, which vaccination does not protect against.
Some fundamentalists, particularly in the United States and Australia, have mandated influenza vaccination of healthcare workers to protect patients. This violation of informed consent is deeply troubling and unethical. Moreover, a large review about vaccination of healthcare workers caring for elderly people did not find an effect on laboratory-proven influenza, lower respiratory tract infection, hospitalisation, death due to lower respiratory tract illness, or all-cause mortality.
A researcher mentioned that, “to focus exclusively on the risk posed by unvaccinated workers – treating them as outcasts or, worse, terminating their employment – while overlooking the risk posed by vaccinated workers, potentially jeopardizes patients.” Indeed. Vaccination may provide staff with a false sense of security that might reduce their level of handwashing and potentially increase, rather than decrease, the risk of infecting patients.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-immune-system-and-vaccines-are-complicated/
Double up, it’s good for you.
“Get your updated booster, with a bonus flu shot! Twice as deadly and effective!”
Lol... That read like a big pharma commercial advertisement generated by AI.
Ssshhhh!!! Don’t tell her that! Just encourage her to get more of them!
I was going to be nice and say neither. I like your answer better.
New propaganda more like it
I will get neither of them - but I will get neither of them at the same time
...does that work?
TexasGator, don’t miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime deal! 2 jabs for the price of 1!
Actually, they destroy your natural immunity.
“You do realize it damages your immune system.”
You’re wasting your time questioning numbskulls like her. If she doesn’t realize the risk by now she never will.
The research is undergoing peer review and has not been published in a scientific journal Ryan McNamara, the lab's director and senior author on the study, said the findings still need to be replicated in a larger group of volunteers, but he felt it was useful to share the results right away
1) Not peer reviewed
2) The results have not replicated
3) Not published in a scientific journal.
Smells like a vaxxine infomercial to me.
Flu vaccine, what's the point? It's a roll of the dice on whether or not it will actually help.
I've never gotten a Flu shot and would never go near the mRNA BS, so I suppose I should already be dead 50 times over.
Forget it, Jake; it’s NBC.
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