https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...lan-to-get-flu-shot-after-deadliest-season-in
More than 40 percent of American adults have not received a flu shot this year and don't plan to do so, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
The survey from NORC at the University of Chicago found that, as of mid-November, 41 percent of adults said they haven't been vaccinated and have no plans to change that, despite last season's record-high death toll.
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My wife at the time & myself had the flu once & we couldn't get out of bed for days. Flu killed a lot of people after WWI. Why this huge percentage of people take this stance is baffling. Maybe most people are either uninformed or just stupid.
My wife at the time & myself had the flu once & we couldn't get out of bed for days. Flu killed a lot of people after WWI. Why this huge percentage of people take this stance is baffling. Maybe most people are either uninformed or just stupid.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...lan-to-get-flu-shot-after-deadliest-season-in
More than 40 percent of American adults have not received a flu shot this year and don't plan to do so, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
The survey from NORC at the University of Chicago found that, as of mid-November, 41 percent of adults said they haven't been vaccinated and have no plans to change that, despite last season's record-high death toll.
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My wife at the time & myself had the flu once & we couldn't get out of bed for days. Flu killed a lot of people after WWI. Why this huge percentage of people take this stance is baffling. Maybe most people are either uninformed or just stupid.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...lan-to-get-flu-shot-after-deadliest-season-in
More than 40 percent of American adults have not received a flu shot this year and don't plan to do so, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
The survey from NORC at the University of Chicago found that, as of mid-November, 41 percent of adults said they haven't been vaccinated and have no plans to change that, despite last season's record-high death toll.
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My wife at the time & myself had the flu once & we couldn't get out of bed for days. Flu killed a lot of people after WWI. Why this huge percentage of people take this stance is baffling. Maybe most people are either uninformed or just stupid.
That wasn't caused by the flu shot. The vaccine shot literally cannot cause the flu. The viruses in the shot have been inactivated, which is another word for "smashed into little tiny bits of virus particles by heat, chemicals and radiation." Those particles can't reassemble themselves. At most you'll feel a slight headache or feeling of tiredness, but you cannot get a 103 temperature from the vaccine.I got my daughter the flu shot this year. I regretted it the very next day as she had a 103 temp and was sicker than a dog. She missed a weeks worth of school. Never again will I get anyone in my family a flu shot.
Distrust. Its hard to know who and what to trust. Couple that with the fact that we know we (as a species) did fine for millions of years prior to vaccines and, well, there you have it.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...lan-to-get-flu-shot-after-deadliest-season-in
More than 40 percent of American adults have not received a flu shot this year and don't plan to do so, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
The survey from NORC at the University of Chicago found that, as of mid-November, 41 percent of adults said they haven't been vaccinated and have no plans to change that, despite last season's record-high death toll.
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My wife at the time & myself had the flu once & we couldn't get out of bed for days. Flu killed a lot of people after WWI. Why this huge percentage of people take this stance is baffling. Maybe most people are either uninformed or just stupid.
Distrust. Its hard to know who and what to trust. Couple that with the fact that we know we (as a species) did fine for millions of years prior to vaccines and, well, there you have it.
Maybe most people arent as sickly as you and your wife. I havent missed a day of school/work in my life due to being sick
That wasn't caused by the flu shot. The vaccine shot literally cannot cause the flu. The viruses in the shot have been inactivated, which is another word for "smashed into little tiny bits of virus particles by heat, chemicals and radiation." Those particles can't reassemble themselves. At most you'll feel a slight headache or feeling of tiredness, but you cannot get a 103 temperature from the vaccine.
Likewise, it takes two weeks for the flu shot to prime the immune system. Meaning, if you were vaccinated today, you would be susceptible to catching the flu up until the 19th of December.
If you daughter did catch the flu, you waited too long into the flu season have her get it.
I get the flu shot every year. Though I am young and healthy, I do not wish to kill my grandfather by giving him the flu.
In the past two years, I've also gotten vaccines for,
- Typhoid - As I visited India a month ago.
- Hep B - As I missed the childhood mandate by a couple of years.
[*] HPV - Because I don't want to die of cancer.
Vaccines are probably one of the best invention that mankind has ever created, IMO.
The flu killed 80,000 Americans last year.
Yeah I bet you would hate to get cervical cancer...
I m 69 and I never get a flu shot and will not do so this year.
But its fine with me if everyone else does.
From what I heard from doctors, last year's flu shot was one of the most ineffective at preventing that year's flu. If there's a high chance that it's not going to work, then that's a pretty good reason to not get it.
Last year's shot didn't target the flu strain that turned out to be the baddie.
I get the flu shot every year. Though I am young and healthy, I do not wish to kill my grandfather by giving him the flu.
In the past two years, I've also gotten vaccines for,
- Typhoid - As I visited India a month ago.
- Hep B - As I missed the childhood mandate by a couple of years.
- HPV - Because I don't want to die of cancer.
Vaccines are probably one of the best invention that mankind has ever created, IMO.
Yeah I bet you would hate to get cervical cancer...
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