Posted on 01/27/2018 8:35:55 PM PST by blam
In short, yes, but facts are racist. /leftscum
I have not heard this before. I take NAC (Swansons). I looked on the bottle and it does not say to refrigerate it. Maybe different NAC products carry different storage instructions?
[[Dont you get plenty of Vit D in California? If Vit D prevents the flu why are they getting it there?]]
I live in Florida and know that lots of Floridians are low vitamin D3 . I’ve seen the blood test results with my own eyes . It sounds crazy with as much sunshine as we get here but plenty of older people stay inside almost all day long.
If stay inside all day long your body won’t make it.
D3 prevents a lot more than just the flu .
“””A friend of mine, age 54, died last week of the flu. I know it is deadly.”””
Sorry for your loss
M-O-O-N, that spells TamiFlu
To state nothing of the fact that the flu is typically only deadly to those with weakened immune systems. That can apply to any age group given the state of health in this country.
Flu is hyped to make it profitable. Agreed on that.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/does-the-vaccine-matter/307723/
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The history of flu vaccination suggests other reasons to doubt claims that it dramatically reduces mortality. In 2004, for example, vaccine production fell behind, causing a 40 percent drop in immunization rates. Yet mortality did not rise. In addition, vaccine mismatches occurred in 1968 and 1997: in both years, the vaccine that had been produced in the summer protected against one set of viruses, but come winter, a different set was circulating. In effect, nobody was vaccinated. Yet death rates from all causes, including flu and the various illnesses it can exacerbate, did not budge. Sumit Majumdar, a physician and researcher at the University of Alberta, in Canada, offers another historical observation: rising rates of vaccination of the elderly over the past two decades have not coincided with a lower overall mortality rate. In 1989, only 15 percent of people over age 65 in the U.S. and Canada were vaccinated against flu. Today, more than 65 percent are immunized. Yet death rates among the elderly during flu season have increased rather than decreased.
30% effective in a good year, this year they have estimated its only about 10% effective, the strain they bet on being the bad one was wrong.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is one of the side effects of a bad flue.
Anyway we now have a thread about how the government is hiding the truth of the devastation caused by the flu, to match the one from last week about how the government is greatly exaggerating the severity of the flu.
I hope "less severe" doesn't mean that the victims don't bother staying home, but go into school or work to infect others.
Last year, I think had the flu that's going around this year. Soon after, I recall going into stores and hearing the exact same distinctive cough I had, from cashiers with red eyes and drippy noses.
What does LEF stand for? Sustained release?
I’d be interested in hearing whatever you can say about the other research whenever you are able to reveal it. Thanks.
Actually it was 7 months:
Dunkle, LM et al "Efficacy of Adult Recombinant Influenza Vaccine in Adults 50 years of Age and Older" NEJM June 22, 2017, 317:2427-2436 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1608862
They explain the problem of egg based medium if you have access to the full article.
CORRECTION: So even when they include it in the vaccine (which they didn't this year)
I had thought I heard a news report that the regular flu vaccine did not include the H3N2 but seeing some of the posts to the contrary I checked some inserts and the regular vaccine does have the H3N2 virus in it. So I wanted to correct my misinformation.
I don’t have the flu, but I’m having the worst episode of asthma I have ever experienced in my life. It usually last just a few weeks. This thing has dragged on since before New Years Eve. The symptoms are finally subsiding, yes, but there is still a great deal of coughing and rattling congestion.
It’s annoying and embarrassing. I’m often thinking ‘Will this never end?’
I don’t know if there’s any relation to the Flu Breakout.
I can only say Thank God for my doctors at the Veterans Hospital in San Francisco. I know my problems are itty-bitty compared to millions of others.
Get your SHOT, citizens!
Thanks, PA Engineer, for the information. Your project sounds very exciting. Best wishes to you in this endeavor.
I take 5k of D3 every day and I live in Portland, Oregon. I also take zinc every night...among other things. So far so good.
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