But the drug companies are making more than ever.
Perhaps it would pay to forgo the lab for a bit.
Did you know Bill Gates doesn’t allow his kids to be vaccinated for the flu?
I’m sure the deep and subtle DNA structure of the eggs has been altered by -—
—wait for it—
Global Warming!!
You SUV is killing children and grandmas for that reason!!
Oh, the Humanity...
I’ll take any edge I can get. At my age and with physical lung damage, if the shot can minimize a virus i’ll take it. I did get a respiratory virus, did not test as the flu after 2 weeks. Was a bad one, but managed to shake it after 3 weeks. If the ineffective flu shot only worked partway, that’s fine.
What a Yolk.
Nice con job they got going.
I’ve read recently that 80% of flu victims this season aren’t infected with a flu virus at all but a virus that causes the same symptoms. The researchers suspect there are a number of viruses causing the widespread illness that mimics the flu. Hopefully we’ll find out the truth after the flu season winds down.
The real reason it sucks is that its government funded.
“But lately, researchers have found that there are problems with the egg-based approach that specifically relate to H3N2.
“In the process of adapting virus to grow in eggs, that seems to introduce further changes to the [H3N2] virus, which may impair the effectiveness of the vaccine,” Belongia said. In other words, while growing the flu virus for vaccines, H3N2 mutates to adapt to the eggs, which seems to result in a vaccine mismatch.”
H3N2 could be a Captain Trips wannabe. Awesome!
1. I don’t get flue shots. Not since being in the army late 80’s early 90’s. 2. I don’t get the flue. Ar least since the early 90’s. 3. Every year I hear a story about how the got the vaccine wrong. 4. Drug companies make billions off flue vaccine. 5. I am tired of being swindled.
What worse is that someone posted a study on one of threads here that stated that people who get the flu shot are emitting the flu virus from their breath. So they are infecting others.
It was something like a 360% increase in flu virus particles coming from their breath. Pretty creepy.
I got socked with a flu in 1972. But it had a beneficial side effect. After feeling for about 5-6 days like I just wanted to die, I realized on feeling better that I hadn’t smoked a cigarette in all that time. I’d been smoking since joining the Army in ‘67, though after that flu, I never lit up again.
I can’t remember my last flu shot. I am a hospital auxiliary volunteer and during certain months out of the year, I cannot work because I don’t get the shot. Many in the auxiliary who are convinced of the flu shot’s value have been ill. My sister had a dear friend who took the shot last year because someone thought she needed it. . . my sister told her not to do it. . .nothing wrong with her. . . and a few months after the flu shot she died. . . one doctor attributed her death to the shot.
Well golly gee, we guessed wrong... ;-)
H3N2 = Hong Kong Flu Remember catching this in 1968 when first appeared
Real ugly - was ick for week......
Problem is that CDC and other agencies have to guess which strains and sub type will be active almost year before to craft vaccine
Virus only grow in living tissue so have to use eggs as growth medium
At our population, flu vaccination is running about 30 percent effective in preventing the flu but the big difference we are seeing is in hospitalization, very few immunized are needing supportive care.
They have the technology to do this with Tobacco but they won’t approve it for use, it has been held up for years on the slow track.
It would allow faster, accurate, and cheaper vaccine production.
Why is the FDA holding it up? because it is tobacco?
I don’t think they put enough autism in the vaccine. The more autism in it, the better it works