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Flu shot found to protect against severe effects of COVID-19
Medical XPress / University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine / PLOS ONE ^ | Aug. 4, 2021 | Susan M. Taghioff et al

Posted on 08/04/2021 6:40:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

In a newly published study, scientists have shown that the flu vaccine may provide vital protection against COVID-19.

This was the largest study…which strongly suggested that the annual flu shot reduces the risks of stroke, sepsis, and DVT in patients with COVID-19. Patients with COVID-19 who had been vaccinated against the flu were also significantly less likely to visit the emergency department and be admitted to the intensive care unit.

Members of the first study group had received the flu vaccine two weeks and six months prior to being diagnosed with COVID-19. Those in the second group also had a positive COVID-19 diagnosis but were not vaccinated against the flu. The incidence of 15 adverse outcomes (sepsis; strokes; deep vein thrombosis or DVT; pulmonary embolism; acute respiratory failure; acute respiratory distress syndrome; arthralgia or joint pain; renal failure; anorexia; heart attack; pneumonia; emergency department visits; hospital admission; ICU admission; and death) within 30, 60, 90 and 120 days of testing positive for COVID-19 were then compared between the two groups.

The analysis revealed that those who had not had the flu shot were significantly more likely (up to 20% more likely) to have been admitted to the ICU. They were also significantly more likely to visit the emergency department (up to 58% more likely), to develop sepsis (up to 45% more likely), to have a stroke (up to 58% more likely) and a DVT (up to 40% more likely). The risk of death was not reduced.

Although it isn't exactly known yet how the flu vaccine provides protection against COVID-19, most theories speculate that the flu shot may boost the innate immune system—general defenses we are born with that do not protect against any one specific illness.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; flushot
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To: cgbg

Kinda like 1984!


21 posted on 08/04/2021 7:36:33 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ReaganGeneration2

The deeper issue (that is almost never discussed) is that every person has a different health profile.

The vaccines will affect every person differently, and that is why a physician who knows the patient should be recommending if the patient should take the vaccine and which vaccine would be best for the individual patient.

Mass inoculations and massive propaganda campaigns are a grotesque violation of medical ethics.

It takes “leaders” who are sociopaths to even consider such an approach.


22 posted on 08/04/2021 7:42:56 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Well I regularly got the flu shot until last year since I figured with all the isolation and measures that it wouldn’t be needed. I didn’t get the flu . I think my theory was accurate. That said while I haven’t gotten any of the covid ones I can see getting the flu shot this year if this has validity.


23 posted on 08/04/2021 7:50:05 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ConservativeMind
Folks, we appear to have protection, due to the flu shot.

Protection from what?

"The risk of death was not reduced."

24 posted on 08/04/2021 8:01:42 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: ConservativeMind
Get the flu shot at your own peril. Why? This 2017-18 Study shows flu vaccines make people MORE VULNERABLE to Coronavirus…

https://www.disabledveterans.org/2020/03/11/flu-vaccine-increases-coronavirus-risk/
25 posted on 08/04/2021 8:07:15 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ConservativeMind

Can you say IRONY???


26 posted on 08/04/2021 8:08:05 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: semimojo

Actually, you missed this, which I did not post:

“The investigators were also able to calculate how many COVID-19-positive patients would need to receive an influenza vaccine to avoid one adverse outcome. Notably, they found that only 176 patients needed to have received a flu vaccine to prevent one ED visit within 120 days of testing positive for COVID-19. Additionally, only 286 patients needed to have received their flu vaccine to prevent one case of sepsis, which is known to be the most expensive condition to treat in the U.S. health care system. Last, for every 440 patients who were up to date on their flu shot, one ICU admission was prevented.”


27 posted on 08/04/2021 8:24:44 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: semimojo

Those serious event reductions show a lot of benefit.

Remember, in all the testing done by Pfizer to get the emergency use approval, more than 99% of the control group did not even get COVID-19.

So those number for the flu shot benefit are stunning.


28 posted on 08/04/2021 8:27:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Another toxic vax.


29 posted on 08/04/2021 8:47:20 PM PDT by cpt_dave
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To: nutmeg

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30 posted on 08/04/2021 8:52:48 PM PDT by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
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To: ConservativeMind

I heard that they are going to start using mRNA in the flu vaccine. If so, I’m not getting it any longer.


31 posted on 08/04/2021 9:03:21 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: ConservativeMind

5 reasons why not to get a flu shot.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-10-26-top-5-reasons-not-to-get-a-flu-shot.html


32 posted on 08/04/2021 9:32:43 PM PDT by hotdogjones (Study shows possible link between blood pressure meds and severe cases of COVID-19)
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To: ConservativeMind

Influenza vaccination and respiratory virus interference among Department of Defense personnel during the 2017–2018 influenza season

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X19313647#!


33 posted on 08/04/2021 9:34:22 PM PDT by hotdogjones (Study shows possible link between blood pressure meds and severe cases of COVID-19)
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To: ConservativeMind

The Flu Vaccine Is “Significantly Associated” With An Increased Risk of Coronavirus

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/no_author/new-study-the-flu-vaccine-is-significantly-associated-with-an-increased-risk-of-coronavirus/


34 posted on 08/04/2021 9:35:09 PM PDT by hotdogjones (Study shows possible link between blood pressure meds and severe cases of COVID-19)
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To: ConservativeMind

Maybe they’re just TELLING you it’s a flu shot because you won’t take the mRNA shots.


35 posted on 08/04/2021 9:38:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ConservativeMind

I have refused to take a normal flu shot for the majority of my adult life. The way things are now, I would not trust doctors to give me an actual, plain vanilla flu shot if I requested one. I can just see a PA or whoever slipping in a Pfizer covid shot and saying oops afterward.


36 posted on 08/04/2021 10:21:22 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Biden's illegal presidency is a demokkkrat declaration of war on Americans and civilization.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Re: "The risk of death was not reduced."

Life and death is pretty much the bottom line here.

20% fewer hospitalizations, but the same death rate?

Sounds odd.

37 posted on 08/05/2021 12:28:46 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: cgbg
Re: "Mass inoculations and massive propaganda campaigns are a grotesque violation of medical ethics."

Since all the vaccines are still experimental, it is actually a violation of federal law.

38 posted on 08/05/2021 12:41:01 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: ConservativeMind

Interesting. I got a flu shot in fall 2019, which I almost never do. I was sick the entire month of January 2020. I still wonder if it was flu or Covid. Unlike the flu, it had a “pneumonia” feel too it. It would be funny if I got Covid and getting that flu shot not long before helped. I will never know.

I still have no clue if I got Covid. Nobody seems very interested in finding out who already has been infected, unless they died or went to the ICU and can stoke the fears.


39 posted on 08/05/2021 1:42:36 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: ConservativeMind

So this is actually the flu with a fancy name


40 posted on 08/05/2021 3:26:01 AM PDT by ballplayer
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