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Why You Shouldn’t Postpone Your Flu Vaccine
CNN ^ | Tue October 24, 2023 | Katia Hetter

Posted on 10/24/2023 8:22:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone 6 months and older should receive the annual flu vaccine, most people haven’t – at least not yet. Only 22.7% of adults and 20.8% of children have gotten the flu shot this fall, according to CDC data from October 14.

Why is it important for everyone eligible to receive the flu shot? How effective is it? Do people who have had the flu before still need a shot? Why is it necessary every year? When is the best time to get it? And what else should people do to stay healthy as the weather gets colder?

To help us with these questions, I spoke with our CNN Wellness medical expert, Dr. Leana Wen. Dr. Wen is an emergency physician and professor of health policy and management at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She previously served as Baltimore’s health commissioner.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: flu; flushot; fluvaccine
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1 posted on 10/24/2023 8:22:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Dear CDC,

F off!


2 posted on 10/24/2023 8:25:00 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: nickcarraway

Um, no.

True story: I know a guy who got the flu jab a couple of weeks ago. The next day he started to feel ill and, for reasons not explained to me, he ended up testing positive for COVID and was compelled to take 10 days off from work.

He insists that he had COVID, not the flu from the jab.

I couldn’t make that up if I tried.

Here’s another stab at hoping to save a life from respiratory illness with the info below (not just the ‘wu flu’):

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3831003/posts


3 posted on 10/24/2023 8:27:54 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: nickcarraway
Stop by an old cemetery sometime. With Halloween next week, get in the spirit and walk around the graveyard. Notice the huge amount of deaths circa 1918, mostly young people, men, women, teenagers. That flu epidemic really left a mark, more so than China Virus. And the 1918 flu really clobbered the 20 somethings.

4 posted on 10/24/2023 8:29:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: nickcarraway

Last chance for Bidet* to pump the vaxx into you?


5 posted on 10/24/2023 8:35:47 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: doorgunner69

Biden didn’t create that vaccine.


6 posted on 10/24/2023 8:37:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I get the flu shot. It’s a true vaccine, raised in eggs. Been that way for 75 years. Had one infection in the 30 years I’ve been getting the shot.


7 posted on 10/24/2023 8:37:41 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Paladin2

F off..CDC-HHS-WHO
NEEDLE NAZIs
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Absolutely 💯
.
Everytime I See a Needle I Freeze up.
To have some purple haired rivet head giggle as it pokes me would send me into cardiac Arrest and I ain’t kidding!


8 posted on 10/24/2023 8:39:55 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: nickcarraway

His regime is pushing it. Are you in favor of it?

Starting to watch you, been weird posts lately.


9 posted on 10/24/2023 8:41:21 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: xkaydet65

I don’t think you have been paying attention. They are openly advocating, if not admitting, using the same mrna “science” for future flu shots.

But, regardless, I’ll share a second data point: I have never had a flu shot and have never had fly in 60 years and counting.


10 posted on 10/24/2023 8:42:49 PM PDT by JParris
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To: doorgunner69

No, I’ve never had a flu or COVID vaccine.


11 posted on 10/24/2023 8:42:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: JParris

flu. never had fly in 60 years and counting...


12 posted on 10/24/2023 8:44:21 PM PDT by JParris
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To: JParris

D@mn it, did it agaian.

Flu. Never had flu in 60 years...


13 posted on 10/24/2023 8:45:17 PM PDT by JParris
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To: xkaydet65

I was required to get the flu shot during my military career. About 1 year out of 3, I then got the flu. Since retiring, I’ve had the flu twice and COVID once in 15 years. Think I’ll keep on skipping it.


14 posted on 10/24/2023 8:45:57 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t trust big pharma.


15 posted on 10/24/2023 8:46:41 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: xkaydet65

Well, I never took a flu shot in my adulthood. Got the flu once. I’m in my mid 60s. So.......?


16 posted on 10/24/2023 8:49:53 PM PDT by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: logi_cal869

Someone convinced me to get a flu vx back in the ‘80s.

Got jab. A couple of week later, I caught the flu.

Haven’t had a jab since. No flu either.


17 posted on 10/24/2023 8:49:56 PM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: nickcarraway

No right thinking American will ever take a vaccine again!
Unless FORCED to by family or employer again:-(


18 posted on 10/24/2023 8:56:03 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: nickcarraway

No Thank you...


19 posted on 10/24/2023 8:57:18 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: nickcarraway

You’ve lived too long. Thats why.


20 posted on 10/24/2023 9:01:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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