Health
Related: About this forumFlu map.
I like to get my vaccine later so I'll be covered in the spring. I use this map every week to see if I can hold on until Nov.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
catbyte
(35,766 posts)even though my state is still in the green.
Warpy
(113,130 posts)This year's flu is a really bad one. I basically lost August, something I wouldn't ordinarily object to, but it was really bad.
JohnSJ
(96,530 posts)pandemic, seems to be leading the country in this
jimfields33
(18,856 posts)Weird that two very different areas are the worst in the country.
JohnSJ
(96,530 posts)Jirel
(2,259 posts)I got mine last week, same day as COVID #5. Good call, I guess.
multigraincracker
(34,075 posts)Didn't hit my area until March and I got it in April.
Looks like if you live in D.C. you better get it now.
hlthe2b
(106,340 posts)luvs2sing
(2,234 posts)Its a birthday tradition.
magicarpet
(16,512 posts)What we are concerned about is the 2022/2023 flu season which starts this fall season.
The 2021/2022 flu season was last year's flu season.
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/main_Widget.html?showBackground=false&showHeader=false#a29
wishstar
(5,486 posts)The map will soon change to show the 2022-23 season starting with the first full week in October
magicarpet
(16,512 posts)Thx for the clarification.
It seems that September 1 would be a better official start date to the coming flu season.
MLAA
(18,599 posts)mbusby
(825 posts)... covid omicron in our left arm and influenza in our right arm.
yellowdogintexas
(22,720 posts)I had them put the flu in my left arm simply because it was a larger dose and I don't use my left arm. As expected, left arm was about twice as sore,
I have only had flu maybe 3 or 4 times in my 73 almost 74 years; I only started taking flu shots in 1999 when I worked at a children's hospital and was required to get it. Now I get it every year.
magicarpet
(16,512 posts)Did you get all the pneumonia shots too ?
As we age our immune systems are not quite as robust as when younger. So these shots help fight off serious and potentially very debilitating respiratory ailments.
magicarpet
(16,512 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,720 posts)series yet.
I think taking them along with the other 2 might be overkill
yellowdogintexas
(22,720 posts)I have had other respiratory things which dropped into my chest and made me pretty sick but not flu. The last one of those was maybe 18 years ago.