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So, the flu rates kept going up as winter progressed, then started dropping in late winter? Amazing what science can find.
1 posted on 03/07/2025 3:21:40 PM PST by nickcarraway
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It’s time to close everything, lock everybody in their houses, give em four/five mystery jabs.


2 posted on 03/07/2025 3:26:35 PM PST by lurk (u)
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"Anyone aged 6 months and older is recommended to get an annual flu shot, according to the CDC. You can find vaccination locations near you at vaccines.gov."

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3 posted on 03/07/2025 3:39:25 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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I haven’t had a flu or cold since Jan. 2020 and I’ve always wondered if that wasn’t an early covid, before it was even named that. Never had covid. No more vax unless there’s a very good reason.


4 posted on 03/07/2025 3:45:48 PM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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What temperature kills the flu virus?
Enveloped viruses such as influenza and coronaviruses are more heat-sensitive and can be destroyed at relatively lower temperatures around 140°F (60°C). Non-enveloped viruses, which include Norovirus and Poliovirus, often require temperatures closer to 185°F (85°C) for effective inactivation.Nov 21, 2024

Thank goodness for global warming. We had three mornings in a row where the temperature here was -12.


5 posted on 03/07/2025 3:47:34 PM PST by kawhill (How a turf war between lizards in Florida impacts mosquitoes and maybe human health)
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The military forced me to receive a flu shot every year and I still got the flu.


6 posted on 03/07/2025 3:48:39 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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We should go back to covid. Back then no one got the flu. Or had heart attacks. Or didn’t drive into trees.

It was all covid.


7 posted on 03/07/2025 3:49:17 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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Flu activity continues to decline in US, latest CDC data shows

The horror!!!

You mean flu season is nearly over...


8 posted on 03/07/2025 3:49:30 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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I’m old enough to remember when flu disappeared almost completely. Now it’s back. Which of those reports should we believe and why?


10 posted on 03/07/2025 3:51:33 PM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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Made it through another winter without getting a flu shot and without getting the flu.


11 posted on 03/07/2025 4:20:21 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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Trump signed his anti-flu Executive Order.


13 posted on 03/07/2025 4:40:01 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Flu peak this year was in Nov-then started trailing off.
I think it’s because the border got shut down.
Aliens bring all kinds of different strains in from other countries.


15 posted on 03/07/2025 4:42:52 PM PST by doc maverick ( )
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Health News: Yale: Marina Zhang, 2/26/2025:

Researchers have identified a condition, termed post-vaccination syndrome or PVS.

This condition is reported in only a small fraction of the population, the researchers wrote.

Yale Preprint Identifies Post-Vaccination Syndrome, PVS: Points to Lack of Recognition:

A medic prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Netanya, Israel on Jan. 5, 2022.
By Marina Zhang, 2/26/2025

Researchers have identified a condition, termed post-vaccination syndrome or PVS, following COVID-19 mRNA or COVID-19 adenovirus vaccinations, according to a recent preprint from Yale University.

This condition is reported in only a small fraction of the population, the researchers wrote.

PVS shares similar symptoms to long COVID, including chronic fatigue, sleep difficulties, brain fog, and nerve changes, for months to years.

While long COVID is accepted by clinicians and the public, “PVS is not recognized by health authorities, and there are no defined diagnostic criteria for PVS,” the study’s lead author Dr. Akiko Iwasaki, Sterling Professor of Immunology at Yale University, told The Epoch Times.

What was done in the preprint study, which recognizes a new form of chronic-fatigue like syndrome, was “extremely challenging research to conduct from every aspect of research operations,” said David Putrino, one of the study researchers and director of rehabilitation innovation at the Mount Sinai Health System.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B7HJG8IfQI_izQw9CQuSoOIhaQtNGJJ_vOq5lyB4_sA/edit?tab=t.0


17 posted on 03/07/2025 5:33:57 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything: It's that history rarely teaches us anything! (outofsalt))
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Some studies show repeated or prior vaccination for flu weakens vaccine effectiveness. They think this is influenced by how closely related the flu antigen is season to season and to the vaccine. This is a nice summary:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5853256/#CIT0013


18 posted on 03/08/2025 5:44:28 AM PST by microgeek42
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