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.
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. :-)
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.
People who don’t have shoddy immune systems, or who don’t work around those who do, generally don’t need them. However, people with suppressed immune systems like myself would rather have a less severe flu after being vaccinated as opposed to having no protection at all and possibly being hospitalized.
Yep - have only got the shot about 1 in 6 years and those years I tend to have more colds and what seems to be mild Flu-like maladies.