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I’m surprised this was even published.
Roughly 20 years ago, I was getting employer provided flu shots every year. I figured it’s free, so why not.
I rarely caught the flu.
Then I stopped taking them.
....and I rarely go the flu
hmmmm....
Same here. I took them for over twenty years and never got the flu. But my wife never took them and she never got the flu. It was a game of chicken as to whom would succumb first.
Yeah....but, but,.....I bet they had the flu for a shorter duration and less serious symptoms.
Yeah....but, but,.....I bet they had the flu for a shorter duration and less serious symptoms.
It’s not published yet.
MedRxiv is a preprint server. But if you want to read real papers about what is not a new phenomenon, google “flu vaccine 2015”, there’s lots of information there.
My experience (and that of many colleagues is different, if not opposite yours) we consistently came down with influenza after receiving flu shots…until we learned to be “allergic to chicken feathers and eggs” thus allowing us to bypass the annual shots.
After that, influenza was periodic with large gaps between episodes for all of us.
That experience supported my decision to forgo the experimental Covid injections and I have remained free of any Covid symptoms.
The only time I ever got the flu was the only year that I got the vax for it. When I saw my doctor, he said, *well, it’s a crap shoot which strain it is, every year. They did their best to figure which strain would be prevalent, and they figured wrong.* I never got another flu shot after that.
Oh, and I had a rotten case of opportunistic strep throat immediately following my flu event. It was worse than the flu.