Flu shots coming in November
Flu shots will be made available in November. There’s particular concern this year because there was almost no flu during the Covid lockdown, so we may be more vulnerable than usual.
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david277 03:37 on 2021-10-05 Permalink
A physician friend of mine said something interesting recently, which is that future flu vaccines may be incorporated into what’s sure to become the annual covid vaccine, with the consequence that there’s likely to be a steep and permanent drop in flu. The idea is that even if the flu vaccine is only 20% effective, the knock on effect of having 85% percent of people vaccinated against it will probably lead to such a low transmission rate that there may be no more annual flu. According to my friend.