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(92,495 posts)Is the first year that I have opted for a flu shot. The first flu death in my state was reported last week.
underpants
(186,494 posts)Jay Glazier. Part of the injury report was players out or trying to recover to stay in this week.
Pinback
(12,873 posts)Got the flu shot a few weeks ago and am still masking in public spaces, so Im hoping to avoid both viruses.
Journeyman
(15,142 posts)I remember it was thought it would be quite effective. I get mine each year, glad for whatever percentage of protection it may effect.
RAB910
(3,953 posts)Warpy
(113,130 posts)Some people think the shot gives them the flu because of the day or two of body aches and low fever they get afterward, which i suppose they don't realize is proof that the shot is waking up their immune system and getting it ready to defend against the real thing.
Others might catch a completely different strain of the flu, either because science guessed incorrectly about the dominant strain that year or they just had the plain bad luck of being in a region where an old strain they weren't protected against was out there. Flu shots give partial protection against any related strain, a shot that protects against, say, H3N2 will partially protect against H3N3, and so forth.
Tell those couple of people to bite the bullet and get the shot this year. This year's flu is horrible.
RAB910
(3,953 posts)Got the flu in the last few weeks
Warpy
(113,130 posts)Thanks.
RAB910
(3,953 posts)They asked about the effectiveness of this year's shot. Antidotely it's not been as good as I would like or hope.
Jim__
(14,447 posts)From CDC:
Information on outpatient visits to health care providers for respiratory illness referred to as influenza-like illness [ILI) is collected through the U.S. Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet). ILINet consists of outpatient healthcare providers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Approximately 85 million patient visits were reported during the 2020-21 season. Each week, more than 3,000 outpatient health care providers around the country report to CDC the number of patient visits for ILI by age group (0-4 years, 5-24 years, 25-49 years, 50-64 years, and ?65 years) and the total number of visits for any reason. A subset of providers also reports total visits by age group. For this system, ILI is defined as fever (temperature of 100°F [37.8°C] or greater) and a cough and/or a sore throat. Since the 2021-22 season, the case definition no longer includes without a known cause other than influenza. Since ILINet monitors visits for ILI and not laboratory-confirmed influenza, it will capture visits due to any respiratory pathogen that presents with the symptoms of fever plus cough or sore throat. These data should be evaluated in the context of other surveillance data to obtain a complete and accurate picture of influenza activity.
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Warpy
(113,130 posts)It's the only time in my whole life that I ever had a sinus headache.
I got the flu shot in early October because I don't even want a mild repeat case of this year's flu. I think it's going to be a killer..