Flu Shot ...

[dennishoddy]

This may have been posted here already...

South Korea's flu shot kills at least 48 people.

Details?

 

[cjjtulsa]

This may have been posted here already...

South Korea's flu shot kills at least 48 people.

Read about that. I'll pass as always - they are rarely more than about 30% or so effective, and my immune system seems to do a good job of staving it off anyway. A little head-scratcher from your linked article:

Flu vaccines, even if they don’t completely prevent an infection, can stave off a severe case and keep people out of the hospital, the CDC says.

"Don't completely prevent"? Either it "prevents" or it doesn't. Like not completely preventing someone from drowning.

 

[tRidiot]

Read about that. I'll pass as always - they are rarely more than about 30% or so effective, and my immune system seems to do a good job of staving it off anyway. A little head-scratcher from your linked article:



"Don't completely prevent"? Either it "prevents" or it doesn't. Like not completely preventing someone from drowning.

Not true. The immune system is incredibly complicated. And yes, you can have 'partial immunity', which mitigates the severity of an illness without completely preventing it, in some cases.

 

[cjjtulsa]

Not true. The immune system is incredibly complicated. And yes, you can have 'partial immunity', which mitigates the severity of an illness without completely preventing it, in some cases.

Stand corrected on part 2, but still not going to bother with a vaccination that has a less than 50% success rate.

 

[TedKennedy]

Stand corrected on part 2, but still not going to bother with a vaccination that has a less than 50% success rate.

You aren't much of a team player, are you?

 

[tRidiot]

Stand corrected on part 2, but still not going to bother with a vaccination that has a less than 50% success rate.

How do you determine 'effectiveness' on a prospective treatment?

Just curious.

 

[TedKennedy]

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/effectiveness-studies.htm

 

[DavidMcmillan]

The odds of us needing the firearms we carry are far less than the odds of needing the flu shot. We just need to accept that we don't like shots, and we do like our firearms.

 

[tRidiot]

The odds of us needing the firearms we carry are far less than the odds of needing the flu shot. We just need to accept that we don't like shots, and we do like our firearms.

Probably pretty sound statement, I guess.

 

[O4L]

The odds of surviving the flu without a flu shot are a lot higher than the odds of surviving a gunfight without a gun.