This season's flu is no joke - PSA for anyone whose kids have not had a shot yet

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Anonymous wrote:This year's shot is a bad match. Supposedly, the shot can still lessen the severity of illness but it's impossible to quantify until after the end of the flu season.
It also doesn't help that the current administration has cut ties with the WHO (that provides annual flu strain data) and has cancelled the campaign to promote flu shots.

Spoiler alert. They never actually quantify the effectiveness of the shot. They put all their time and energy into marketing instead.

Go ahead and try to figure out how many people who took the shot died of flu in any given year.

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This. We get the flu shot most years, including this year. Influenza can be very serious. But I’m meh about the shot.

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I always get the flu shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the flu vaccine and the variant spreading are mismatched.

Bc of the chaos with the change in administration at the beginning of the year, FDA did not hold its usually public advisory committee meeting where experts would’ve made recommendations on what strains to include.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like the flu vaccine and the variant spreading are mismatched.

Bc of the chaos with the change in administration at the beginning of the year, FDA did not hold its usually public advisory committee meeting where experts would’ve made recommendations on what strains to include.

While I agree with the chaos observation, it’s often a bad match. It’s extremely difficult to predict. This year isn’t any different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also think the flu shot is helpful. Every year, one person in our household gets the flu, but the rest of us stay well. I attribute this to getting the flu shot.

Last year, I was the only one in our house to not get the flu shot (which was an oversight, I have nothing against it), and was also the only one to not get the flu.

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Anonymous wrote:I just really wish people kept their sick kids home. I'm so angry at how people have their coughing kids out and about. All 3 of my kids are now sick right before Christmas.

Unfortunately, coughs can last awhile. Even after most kids are better. Plus, you are contagious with flu/colds a day or two before symptoms even start. It is tricky.

Was just about to say the same. My 11yo had the flu 10 days ago but has a lingering cough. He’s not getting your kids sick.

[Anonymous]

It just took down my whole house this week. DH brought it home from the school where he teaches and hadn’t the flu shot in October

[Anonymous]

I usually scoff at the flu shot, but just spent 3 days sick as a dog from the flu. I'm getting the shot as soon as I can.

[Anonymous]

They always say the shot is a bad match for this year's strain. Every year it's the same thing. That said I'm currently getting over this flu....the media is right....it is a bad one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

Seriously, it does make a difference, THEY DID NOT DIE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

Seriously, it does make a difference, THEY DID NOT DIE!

The overwhelming majority of flu patients do not die, even without the vaccine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12 yo just had it and it was probably the sickest I've seen him since he was v young, and he had had the shot. I dont know what it would have been like without it. His ped does not do tamiflu but in retrospect i would have pushed for it. One night was esp troublesome.

I’m not sure how this is a PSA for the flu shot? Your kid had a terrible time on it anyway.

My kids have had the flu twice in the last couple of years. Once before they were able to get their shot and once after they got their shot. I could not tell the difference in terms of their sickness. The shot made no difference for them.

I personally haven’t gotten a flu shot since I was pregnant and don’t plan to. I haven’t had the flu in a long time despite my own kids getting sick with it. We mask in the house when they are sick.

Or the time with the shot might have been much worse. You have no idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They always say the shot is a bad match for this year's strain. Every year it's the same thing. That said I'm currently getting over this flu....the media is right....it is a bad one.

Did you have the shot?

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I got a flu shot (and covid) and I'm surviving quite well what could have been a horrible lingering sickness.

Only a sore throat and deep aches and fatigue. It could have been so much worse. I'm the only public facing one in household and nobody else got sick. I'm hoping it minimized the contagious period as well.

On the mend. Get your shot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a flu shot (and covid) and I'm surviving quite well what could have been a horrible lingering sickness.

Only a sore throat and deep aches and fatigue. It could have been so much worse. I'm the only public facing one in household and nobody else got sick. I'm hoping it minimized the contagious period as well.

On the mend. Get your shot!

I’m all for getting the shots but you don’t know what it would have been like without it. There could be zero difference.

I get the flu shot about 50% of the time and I did get the flu shot this year. I’ve had influenza zero times in my life. Flu shot or no flu shot.