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Flu outbreak sickens nearly 160 US troops, 2 months after flu vaccine was made optional
PennLive ^ | Amy Worden

Posted on 06/19/2026 3:19:41 AM PDT by MrRelevant

Less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional for U.S. servicemen and women, an outbreak on a Texas air base has sickened nearly 160 people, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Humor; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: fakenews; influenza; newyorkslimes; vaccine

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To: MrRelevant

The haters will be a hating on the Trumpster no matter. Quit the jab soon as I retired and have not had any complications since where before I was sick as a dog for at least a week after taking that shit because it was command directed. It has been 16 years of bliss since the last one.


21 posted on 06/19/2026 4:39:49 AM PDT by Slingwing
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To: MrRelevant

The useless article does not state how many had the flu last year, so far all we know this is common. This could even be a low year. If I were a journalist I might even look into it


22 posted on 06/19/2026 4:48:11 AM PDT by not in the club
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To: GranTorino

😂😂😂😂👍🏻


23 posted on 06/19/2026 4:48:48 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MrRelevant

PennLive .enough said.


24 posted on 06/19/2026 4:51:35 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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To: spincaster

Penn Live via the NYT.

24,000 people at Lackland. 160 get flue. .0066 If there was any correlation to not having the flu vax, then closer to 9600 would get the flu if the 40% decline ratio held.

These vaxes don’t prevent the flu. Reduce risk yes. Reduce severity, yes.

Our country is losing its critical thinking ability. We simply parrot what other people say or do.

More people at Lackland had toe fungus than the flu (laughing)


25 posted on 06/19/2026 5:00:20 AM PDT by SteelPSUGOP (UGHT)
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To: SteelPSUGOP

They will get over it. Getting one of the wacky vaccines might mean they will never get over anything.


26 posted on 06/19/2026 5:12:49 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MrRelevant

And now that 160 will not get that flew again. But what we don’t know is if that strain of flu was even in the shot.


27 posted on 06/19/2026 5:15:52 AM PDT by poinq
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To: MrRelevant

Lackland AFB, has around 24,702 active-duty members - 160 is approximately 0.65% of 24,702.

This year’s flu vaccines were about 25% to 30% effective in preventing adults from getting sick enough to need a doctor’s office, clinic, or hospital visit, and around 40% effective for children.

So, less of them got the Flu than the average of those who take the vaccine - 2.17% of them caught the Flu when, considering the efficacy one would expect up to 17,290 (70% of the 24,702 active duty) getting the Flu.


28 posted on 06/19/2026 5:20:57 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: MrRelevant

Never had a flu shot and never had the flu. Fear porn.


29 posted on 06/19/2026 5:25:52 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Olog-hai

The flu shot was always useless


30 posted on 06/19/2026 5:26:40 AM PDT by brookwood (First the left said it was OK to steal. Next they said it was OK to kill)
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To: ArcadeQuarters
Did the “science” change again from the Covid years?

Wait—there was science during the COVID years?

31 posted on 06/19/2026 5:27:52 AM PDT by MissNomer
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To: Az Joe
How many of the sick soldiers had a flu vax?

Good question. The NYT is NOT going to tell you THAT, are they.

32 posted on 06/19/2026 5:28:31 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Vermont Lt
It’s likely not even the flu. It’s probably just a cold. The real flu puts you in bed for a week. A cold knocks you out for a day.

That is my observation as well. I retired before Covid. Back then, nobody took off for a case of the sniffles. If you felt like crap, sure. But even then, most people were back in the office overnight or a day later.

33 posted on 06/19/2026 5:42:46 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: MayflowerMadam
Out of 2.12 million military personnel, ONE-HUNDRED-SIXTY got the flu? OMG OMG OMG!

No. 160 personnel on a single air base got the flu. Is it bad? No. They should be able to weather it just fine. The bigger question is, of the 160 who did get the flu, how many also got the flu shot?

34 posted on 06/19/2026 5:42:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: MrRelevant

Flu vaccines are only 30-50% effective per the CDC. So even if everyone one of those had been vaccinated, there would be at least 80 instead of 160 best case. These are otherwise young, health recruits that will be just fine with a day or two of taking it easy.


35 posted on 06/19/2026 5:46:25 AM PDT by gunnut
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To: ReformedBeckite

I got the shingles vaccine through the VA. That stuff is really bad news if you get it.


36 posted on 06/19/2026 6:08:52 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: MrRelevant

160 SMs actually got the flu? Or they caught flu-like symptoms that are just lumped into the flu numbers?


37 posted on 06/19/2026 6:21:00 AM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: IYAS9YAS

mRNA poison is in flu shots now.

The question is now how many of the flu vaxxed will develope TURBO CANCER in the next few years?

How many of the flu vaxxxxxed fools will die of myocarditis in the next few years?

ETC.

If you are getting mRNA poisoned flu shots and you are military age, plan on having your life shortened. The more mRNA shots you take, the more your life will be shortened.


38 posted on 06/19/2026 6:21:47 AM PDT by politicianslie (Gold is the money of kings, silver for gentlemen, barter for peasants, debt is money for slaves )
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To: MrRelevant

Natural immunity from acquired illness is better than imunity acquired by vaccination— Anthony Fauci, M.D. 2019


39 posted on 06/19/2026 6:28:32 AM PDT by sopo
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To: politicianslie

What cannot be defeated from without must be defeated from within. That applies to the military as well as the government. The enemy is now inside.


40 posted on 06/19/2026 6:34:36 AM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (Currently experiencing life at too many WTFs per minute.)
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