I keep seeing seemingly healthy people dying from the flu this winter.
Older children, middle aged adults. What's going on?
Replies to: I keep seeing seemingly healthy people dying from the flu this winter.
I know people here locally that have tested positive for Flu A twice over the course of 2 months....
It wasn't bad enough to have it just once. It begs the question though, if you can get the flu twice in a season, how can a vaccine truly ever be effective?
Different strains of flu can each be caught
The vaccines are educated guesses as to what strains to protect against. Some years they do better than others at their guess. This year seems to be one of the poorer guesses.
It has been poorer guesses many of the last 5 years... even a good guess is only 60% effective
straight from the vaccine manufacturers mouth. Me thinks the flu vaccine is just one other piece to the big-pharma money making pit.
I thought I was getting it a couple weeks ago
Had to go to a meeting in a small room and half the people there were coughing and sneezing. Three days later started feeling bad. Turned out to be just a bad cold. The flu vaccine isn’t Very effective this yeah, flu season started earlier than normal. Hospitals around here are restricting visitors.
11 died from flu in my county so far this winter. It's Aussie flu H3N2, more deadly to people born
before 1968, whose immune systems respond well to H1N1 or H2N2, but not well to H3N2.
It's a really bad flu this year....reminds me of the one back in 2009 or so. You are right.
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1. They couldn't keep their doctor.
2. They couldn't keep their plan.
3. They didn't have Hillary's doctor.
Way to make alarming deaths political.
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Yes...because that's just never done...
That was awesome. Almost deserves its own thread.
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