Posted on 06/29/2019 7:53:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
CDC reports that the vaccine failed miserably against a flu bug that popped up halfway through the season.
This season's shot turned out to be a mismatch against the bug that showed up late in the year. The least effective flu vaccine in the past decade was in 2014-2015; that year a mismatch was also blamed.
According to ABC News, vaccines against most infectious diseases are not considered successful unless they are at least 90% effective. Due to the flu virus' ability to change so quickly, vaccine effectiveness usually averages around 40%.
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Seems like this happens almost every year. Really not sure why people bother getting the flu shot. It just seems like a commercial hype every season. More about selling a questionable product than anything. How many billions are made from these miss- matched products - every year.
Perhaps the CDC neglected to figure in the invasion of 3rd worlders? (when attempting to predict the 3 or 4 most likely strains last year)
The only time I have ever been hospitalized with an illness was when I had complications from the flu. I’d gotten my shot in plenty of time that year, but it was one of those mismatch years and I got a strain that wasn’t covered by the vaccine. My doc later told me that my illness likely would have been even worse if I hadn’t gotten my flu shot.
I still get an annual flu shot.
FWIW. :-)
But if politics is playing a role in flu vaccine creation, and that info becomes public, God help folks tasked with protecting public health cuz their job just became exponentially more difficult.
The reason to get the shot is that a 40% chance of being protected against any flu strain you might encounter is still better than no protection. And flu is a killer. I’d rather have at least some protection than none.
Also, the flu shot contains three or four different strains. The fact that one strain mutated after the shot was developed for this season has no bearing on the efficacy of the other strains.
I get the flu about once every 12 years.
Flu shot is virtually useless.
Get your vitamin D levels tested, and raise them to 60+ my/mL via supplementation (D3) or UV exposure or a combination. Far better than a flu shot, and also turns on all kinds of anti-cancer genes.
Educate before you vaccinate.
The same medical organizations pushing a one-size-fits-all vax policy, push gun control
I get my flu shot pretty much every year now. I also got the pneumonia shot in 2005 and will be asking for a booster this year cause I’m turning 65.
The average freeper is probably an older adult. It’s not wise to gamble with life and health to argue some political point. A lady in my church in her late 60s almost died last winter because she refuses to receive either shot. She just assumes that she’ll always be healthy enough to beat these things.
BTW, if your 65+ make sure you get the quadrivalent flu shot when you do. Older adults don’t respond to vaccines as effectively as younger ones and need the extra coverage to produce antibodies.
Yes. Money.
I have to get a disciplinary write up each year for refusing the flu vaccine.
Watching the news out of Australia they are just beginning their flu season. Last year they got a seriously dangerous strain that took quite a few. As I recalled it hit 20 something’s really hard
On their site, the CDC says they don’t know how Ebola is contracted. How completely clueless is this agency?
Get your vitamin d levels above 70 and even if you get the flu it will be a very light case.
I just wrote the same thing. Vitamin d blood levels about 70, you won’t get too sick even if you catch a flu. Vitamin d + plenty of sleep + no stress = you won’t even catch the flu. But the latter two depend on other people so no guarantees.
I can guarantee no illness from exposure to flu for myself now by vitamin d3 supplementation (5k iu daily unless full day sun exposure over most of my body which doesn’t happen), and if I feel fevery or sore throat beginnings, I hit with liposomal vitamin c, zinc lozenges, and extra sleep, and it’s gone.
Some flu strains are harder on the young because they haven’t been exposed to them like older adults. This was particularly true of the H1N1 strain of a few years ago. Pregnant women were especially at risk.
The point is this. Flu isn’t something to muck around with. It kills people. Getting the shot is pretty much always a better idea than not. Not a perfect idea, just a better one.
Get a shot anyway because the pharmaceutical company needs the revenue and your payment receipt is your participation trophy.....
I haven’t had a flu shot since ... I think it was 1999. And I work in L.A., and all my students are Latino, and a pretty good portion of them are illegal. So far, my immune system is handling things well.
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