Posted on 10/01/2020 7:07:52 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, health care experts have been urging Americans to get vaccinated against influenza during the 2020-2021 flu season, to prevent a "twindemic," overlapping epidemics of the flu and COVID-19, which could overwhelm hospitals and increase people's risk of death.
During the annual Influenza/Pneumococcal Disease news conference on Thursday, hosted by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, public health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, urged the public to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation for everyone to get vaccinated against flu.
"Everybody, 6 months of age or older, should get an annual flu vaccine," asserted Fauci.
"Influenza, all by itself, is a profoundly serious viral infection, which causes hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations each year, with the major complication being pneumonia, and many thousands of deaths," Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told ABC News.
Only 48% of U.S. adults were vaccinated against the flu during 2019-2020, leading to 38 million flu illnesses, 18 million flu-associated medical visits, 400,000 flu hospitalizations and 22,000 flu deaths, according to CDC estimates.
"We're at greatest risk of becoming seriously ill," Fauci said during the conference. "It's our personal responsibility to protect ourselves. But we also have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable around us, including young children, pregnant women, adults, 65 years of age or older and those with underlying chronic health conditions."
"First, get vaccinated," he continued, "and take everyday preventive actions to stop the spread of germs."
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I don't mind the fear and scare tactics as much as I mind the lack of full-disclosure. We get this syntax...
The flu vaccine is not 100% effective, thus, it may be possible for some people to get vaccinated and still get the flu. However, getting the vaccine makes the symptoms of the flu much less severe than it would have been if you never got the shot.
"Each year, we show that people who are vaccinated, and run the risk of getting influenza, are less likely to have to go to the emergency room, less likely to be hospitalized, less likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit. And they're less likely to die," said Schaffner.
Despite these statistics, a new survey, released Thursday by the NFID, reveals that only 59% of U.S. adults said they planned to get vaccinated against influenza during the 2020-2021 flu season. Fifteen percent stated they were not sure, while 22% who are at high risk for flu-related complications (such as adults age 65 years and older, smokers, those with diabetes, asthma, heart disease or kidney disease) said they were not planning to get vaccinated.
...but you'd think they could at least print the Seasonal Flu Vaccine Effectiveness data, which are available on the CDC website. That way, people could decide if they want to take a vaccine for a virus that infected an average of 12% of Americans over the past three years that has been effective about one-third of the time on average the past four years.
The fear mongering never stops. It’s like a disease.
Get it?
Ok that was really bad.
Twin Scamdemic
If anybody told you vaccines are safe they are lying to you
They’re already setting us up for another scam. Now they’re touting an epidemic or ‘respiratory illness’ because of the Rona Cooty Virus.
No. I’m not getting it. Not now, not ever.
The ‘flu vaccines seem to be generally safe. Whether they’re effective or not is another question.
I’ve taken it twice. Once, I got the ‘flu anyway.
The other time, I felt like hell - and as if I were coming DOWN with the ‘flu - for several months.
I don’t take that anymore. But I might take a Covid vaccine, if my doc thought it was thoroughly tested.
Maybe they’ll get it right this year.
Maybe hell will freeze over.
I’m gonna do what I always do.
Not get one just like I don’t every year and never get the “flu” either.
So bad, it was great.
TwinBS
When this idiocy started, the first thing they reported was, that people who got yearly flu shots were being hit harder than anyone else.
[Nursing home residents get them as a matter of rote]
down the oubliette *that* “discovery” went, really fast.
Nuts, there will barely be a flu season.
The things people are doing for Covid will make the spread of the flu very small. In my opinion!
I am at age 80 and have avoided flu for more than last 15 years simply by avoiding touching face with unwashed hands.
And in 2020 I HAVE AVOIDED COVID-19 with the same technique.
Was on a crowded Carnival “party” ship at beginning of march, have been to Walmart every week since the cruise, and visiting restaurants regularly now (all are open in Florida). And escorted wife for cancer treatments every 3 weeks, and Home Depot dozens of time, and the beautiful beach in Saint Augustine regularly. Point is I am living opposite lifestyle of Biden.
Fear mongering Fauci is a threat to Americans.
Why any media would give him any credence is beyond logic.
WEAR MASKS FOREVER! We’re all gonna die unless we obey the Masters and Overlords...
Your post is interesting. I’d be interested in the study behind that report. I’m not against vaccines for a number of things; but I’ve always wondered what vaccines do to one’s immune system.
I don’t get flu shots I hate shots.
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