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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I promise I'm not a paranoid still wearing masks, but can the folks saying no say why? At this point, why isn't it any different from getting the flu shot?[/quote]

My teens don't get a flu shot either.

Honestly, we have no idea what the long term effects of yearly shots (like flu shots and Covid shots) will have.  So, we pass.

My teens are fully vaccinated otherwise, so I'm not an anti-vaxxer.  Just don't see enough benefit to warrant yearly flu/Covid shots.  [/quote]

I wouldn't put flu and Covid shots in the same bucket, although the evidence for annual boosters of both is poor. But the flu vaccine is a totally different vaccine with a much longer track record, so we need to be less concerned about unknown long-term effects. Also, as Paul Offit has explained repeatedly, the flu mutates differently and is much more strain-dependent as far as the severe-disease protection goes, so annual boosters make more sense. For Covid, Offit says, boosters are not needed for younger, immunocompetent people, because immunity against severe disease is long-lasting and not variant-dependent.[/quote]

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