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Flu Shots?

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ForestGumpett

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Whatever happened to the flu shots? Since covid showed up it seems the flu and all flu deaths have disappeared? I have not seen an advertisement for the flu shot at any of the major medical centers and we are in a city of 2.5 million, it’s really weird?

Did covid make the flu go away? If so I guess It’s a good thing, nobody will die from the flu anymore!
 
The flus shots are still available and can be given at your Drs. office or at pharmacies at least in NYS. Check out these places.
The flu wasn't as prevalent last year because of the precautions that were being taken for COVID. Both are respiratory viruses and spread from person to person and thus the measures worked for both illnesses. The flu viruses are still around.
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
The Flu, Common Cold, and many other upper respiratory infections (some much more nefarious) are all in the Coronavirus family. It has been theorized that some of the positive Covid-19 tests were in fact false positives that detected other closely related members of the Coronavirus family.
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I thought from what I recall it's fact that Covid tests positive for influenza. The Covid tests weren't even developed using the actual Covid virus so if I understand correctly that's why they give a positive test for influenza? I believe it's the same for the common cold?

The current survival rate for Covid under the age of 70 is 99.97% which I believe is similar to the survival rate for influenza which has been with us for many centuries and no mandatory vaccinations.

The current survival rate for Covid under the age of 18 is: 99.99997%.
 
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My wife and I got Covid-19 shots last winter. We also got a flu shot as per our doctors instructions.
 
People are wearing masks indoors, at ,least until a majority are vaccinated. no thing is spreading in the mean time. colds included, bacteria. just keep washing hands.
 
CDC encourages use of new tests that detect both COVID-19 and the flu

"False claims circulated on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that the CDC’s move meant the agency and the FDA had admitted PCR tests do not work. Some posts online falsely said the test was unable to differentiate between coronavirus and influenza, leading to inflated COVID-19 counts and depressed flu counts.

In fact, PCR tests are designed to detect very specific areas of the viral genome, so tests do not get confused between which virus is present, said Matthew Binnicker, director of the clinical virology lab at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota."
 
I was just asked about getting flu shots last week during my annual physical and during my well women's exam at another office. I've seen it still being advertised here. Flu season is still coming up so I'm expecting to see it more in the coming months.
 
Martha Ferris said:
The flus shots are still available and can be given at your Drs. office or at pharmacies at least in NYS. Check out these places.
The flu wasn't as prevalent last year because of the precautions that were being taken for COVID. Both are respiratory viruses and spread from person to person and thus the measures worked for both illnesses. The flu viruses are still around.
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Does this mean we will need flu booster shots too?
 
Magna said:
...The current survival rate for Covid under the age of 70 is 99.97% which I believe is similar to the survival rate for influenza which has been with us for many centuries and no mandatory vaccinations.
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Thank you, that is very interesting! That is a very high survival rate isn’t it! Wow!
 
clg114 said:
My wife and I got Covid-19 shots last winter. We also got a flu shot as per our doctors instructions.
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Our doctor didn’t say one word about it, we both go to the same one and think he’s wonderful because he has saved my life twice. He offered only the covid if we wanted it but didn’t push it nor did we hear anything at all about the flu shot. Our GP is an infectious disease doctor in Houston, if anyone should know I think he would. We trust him and have been the better for it.

Wish everyone was on the same page but obviously our own doctors are not on the same page are they?! Reckon it’s gotta be live and let live.
 
ForestGumpett said:
Our doctor didn’t say one word about it, we both go to the same one and think he’s wonderful because he has saved my life twice. He offered only the covid if we wanted it but didn’t push it nor did we hear anything at all about the flu shot. Our GP is an infectious disease doctor in Houston, if anyone should know I think he would. We trust him and have been the better for it.

Wish everyone was on the same page but obviously our own doctors are not on the same page are they?! Reckon it’s gotta be live and let live.
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That was my experience recently going to the doctor (last week) as well. My doctor didn't even ask me about the Covid vaccine or the flu shot. It was the first time I ever saw this doctor as I decided to change clinics recently.

That's not the case everywhere though. I thought medicine was immune to politics, but it's not. Politics has apparently started to infect medicine. I read this week that a doctor in Florida sent a letter to all of her patients saying she'll now refuse to treat anyone for any reason if they haven't taken a Covid vaccine. I find this very sad.

I've never heard, for example, of a doctor refusing to treat a murderer, even a mass murderer or refusing to treat other violent criminals. This doctor will apparently refuse to treat unvaccinated.
 
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To the best of my knowledge, precautionary measures to lessen the spread of COVID also reduce spread of other airborne diseases like influenza, but they are still around. I think COVID is just getting most of the attention because it is more likely to be dangerous and harder to predict who will become seriously ill if they catch it, not because the flu is no longer a significant concern at all.
 
dragonfire42 said:
To the best of my knowledge, precautionary measures to lessen the spread of COVID also reduce spread of other airborne diseases like influenza, but they are still around. I think COVID is just getting most of the attention because it is more likely to be dangerous and harder to predict who will become seriously ill if they catch it, not because the flu is no longer a significant concern at all.
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Okay, if this is the case then in what way is covid different than the flu? Don’t we normally wait for the vaccines to come from China first all the other years?

I’m having a difficult time understanding if the survival rage is the same, and it being spread the same...well, what is the difference?

Why is the world closed for essentially what seems to be the flu? This makes absolutely no sense to me at all?
 
ForestGumpett said:
Okay, if this is the case then in what way is covid different than the flu? Don’t we normally wait for the vaccines to come from China first all the other years?

I’m having a difficult time understanding if the survival rage is the same, and it being spread the same...well, what is the difference?

Why is the world closed for essentially what seems to be the flu? This makes absolutely no sense to me at all?
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The hospitalization rate is much higher. In-hospital mortality significantly higher with COVID-19 than flu
 
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Earlier in the pandemic I too had trouble understanding how COVID was that different from the flu, and yes, it has a much higher chance of making one severely ill, and causing long-term complications if it isn’t fatal. It also is less predictable as to who will be affected how severely. With influenza, most people without compounding factors (such as pre-existing conditions or age) can expect to recover well after a week or two. With COVID, even people who are young adults and otherwise healthy have a significant risk of becoming gravely ill (and I also have seen several reports of elderly people with other conditions testing positive but being mostly or entirely asymptotic), and so it is also more important for even people who are not “high-risk” to be vaccinated for COVID than for influenza.
 
if you want a better understanding of how covid operates do some research on how Covid and Neanderthal are related. every thing then becomes as clear as day.
 
ForestGumpett said:
Does this mean we will need flu booster shots too?
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You need to get a flu vaccination every year. They last about 6 months and are app. 50% effective.

"The influenza viruses in the seasonal flu vaccine are selected each year based on surveillance data indicating which viruses are circulating and forecasts about which viruses are the most likely to circulate during the coming season. The degree of similarity between available vaccine viruses and circulating viruses also is important." Selecting Viruses for the Seasonal Influenza Vaccine | CDC
 
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