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10-29-2014, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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Flu Vaccine
So with all the hubbub about Ebola, who is getting their flu shot?
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10-29-2014, 07:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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They start pushing flu shots on you pretty hard once you're diagnosed as diabetic, so I've been getting one for a few years now. I usually feel like shit the next day and then I'm fine. |
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10-29-2014, 07:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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dola, WTF does this have to do with Ebola. God damn Ebola threads are spreading like wildfire.
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10-29-2014, 07:52 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Northern Kentucky
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Just curious how people see the flu vaccine when we have so many people wanting to quarantine folks with Ebola.
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10-29-2014, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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Work at a hospital. Have to
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10-29-2014, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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1st time ever. See what happens. I think I have gotten the flu once in the last 30 years.
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10-29-2014, 08:40 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Havent had one in at least 20 years and ive never caught the flu in that time.
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10-29-2014, 08:41 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
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Post heart attack I've gotten them every year.
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10-29-2014, 09:02 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I get one every year, why wouldn't I?
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10-29-2014, 09:07 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Newburgh, NY
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I usually have an early December doctor's appointment and I'll get it then. Too much contact with students and kids not to.
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10-29-2014, 09:29 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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I fly alot and always get the shot as flu is contagious!
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10-29-2014, 10:33 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
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Getting mine on Tuesday. Only gotten the flu once in 25 years or so, but the docs didn't recognize the strain I had so it wouldn't have been stopped by the vaccine anyway.
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10-30-2014, 12:18 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Got mine last weekend. I was one of those "I never get sick types why bother" years ago and caught the flu. Holy hell does it suck. Not interested in losing a week of my life to that.
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10-30-2014, 07:09 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Chicagoland
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Yep. When your wife and children are all susceptible to respiratory problems, it's pretty much a no-brainer.
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10-30-2014, 07:11 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: MA
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I don't know, I guess I probably should. I haven't come down with a legit flu since I was a pre-teen and have never gotten the vaccine. So it hasn't been something I've been motivated to go out and do.
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10-30-2014, 07:34 AM
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Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Seven miles up
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I get them every year typically.
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10-30-2014, 08:30 AM
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Pro Rookie
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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Yes. Herd immunity and all that.
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10-30-2014, 08:40 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Winnipeg, MB
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No, probably not. I'm a healthy adult male in my mid-thirties, I'll roll the dice. The only reason I might is if my kids are getting one and I feel it might make it easier for them if they see daddy do it first.
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10-30-2014, 08:46 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
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Getting it for free at work definitely influences the decision though
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10-30-2014, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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In general, the vaccine isn't necessarily about you. In order to make a vaccine completely effective, they would need to draw titers to make sure everyone in the US got the proper immune response from the vaccine. They aren't going to draw titers for something like the flu, it isn't cost effective. So what the vaccine does if given to enough people is offer herd immunity. Enough people will get a sufficient dose, that when someone does get sick, the risk of an outbreak goes down(do to a high % of the population being immune). So in a way, you are getting protected by everyone else getting the shot(thank the herd). Your current health status is irrelevant. You aren't likely to fight off the flu virus when you are truly exposed to it(I use exposed in the medical sense, not the ebola hipster sense). If you do not get the shot and you haven't had the flu in years you should thank everyone else around you for getting the shot. But keep in mind, if you DO happen to pick it up, people around you who had the shot...might not be immune.
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10-30-2014, 07:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Seattle
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Yup, what dubb93 said. It's less about you as an individual as it is about the community as a whole, and in particular vulnerable members of your community.
And to answer Radii's question above, the connection to Ebola is the reality that despite all the panic out there about Ebola (and yes, I get that it's a very scary virus), the flu will kill thousands to tens of thousands of people in this country every year. Not one person that has contracted Ebola in this country has died from it. And yet there are plenty of people out there that don't bother to get a flu shot. |
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10-30-2014, 08:50 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Keene, NH
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I got one last year for the first time - they usually do them for free at work so that makes it easy. I wouldn't go seek one out
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11-02-2014, 09:20 AM
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Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Here and There
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What about all the other ones? Walgreens had pneumonia, a few others.
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11-02-2014, 09:32 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Dayton, Ohio
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The flu vaccine is recommended for everybody. The pneumo vaccine is available for everybody, but mainly recommended to young children, elderly, and all with diseases that compromise the immune system. The flu can obviously lead to pneumonia therefore hopefully that is one risk factor taken care of. It may also be due to supply that it isn't recommended for everybody.
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11-02-2014, 10:09 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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I only get the flu shot and while I haven't seen my doctor this fall, in past years he only pushed me to get a flu shot, pneumonia never even came up, when I went in for my flu shot the nurses didn't ask about it either.
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11-02-2014, 12:08 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Unlike the flu, your body will generally fight off pneumonia. That is why it isn't recommended for people with generally healthy immune systems. Pneumonia is pretty hard to get. Your body has quite a bit of defenses in place to keep gunk from reaching the lower lobes of your respiratory track. Generally it is only when those defenses are compromised, or you have another infection, that anyone becomes worried about pneumonia.
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11-02-2014, 12:46 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA
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Flu shots are just another way for the government to control us. They know that we are on to the contrails so now they are injecting us directly with the mind controlling chemicals.
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11-02-2014, 01:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Colorado
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I haven't had a flu in like 45 years and haven't had a flu shot since when I was a kid, so no flu shots.
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11-02-2014, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Seattle
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