DeacHawk
Punishingly Intricate
I get it every year and so far it's 100% effective. #hotflushotanecdotes
You guys know it's scientifically impossible to catch the flu from the flu shot, right? These are the worst #anecdotes ever. Unless you're getting the nasal mist (the option for wimps afraid of needles), then there is 0% chance you got the flu from the shot. You were going to get sick anyway, and probably should have gotten the shot sooner.
Fair enough, but I think minimizing the spread of a disease that causes over 200,000 hospitalizations a year and killed 140+ kids in the U.S. last year is worth a relatively painless shot. Its effectiveness is certainly much lower than a lot of vaccines, but even a 60% effectiveness rate in a disease that impacts so many people and is much more dangerous to certain people than people think is worth it.
Better be careful throwing around the ethnic slurs, awar. You never know who the board gypsies are.
Meh, I'll take my #anecdotes as they relate to me for my personal decision moving forward over your #advancedscience. But even if you're right and I was going to get sick anyway and the shot didn't prevent it, then what the hell is the point of getting the shot? I wasted $10 and a dead arm for an afternoon.
We have way more posters that are academically qualified to be a a mid-90's Playboy Playmate than I anticipated.
Sounds like pretty shitty science if it hardly ever works any better than just winging it.
You guys know it's scientifically impossible to catch the flu from the flu shot, right? These are the worst #anecdotes ever. Unless you're getting the nasal mist (the option for wimps afraid of needles), then there is 0% chance you got the flu from the shot. You were going to get sick anyway, and probably should have gotten the shot sooner.
>0% chance that you'll get Guillain-Barré
You know what else can trigger GBS? Actually getting the flu.
So why add to the odds by getting an ineffective flu shot?
The background rate for GBS in the U.S. is about 80 to 160 cases of GBS each week, regardless of vaccination.*
*from the CDC
Link to study showing the flu shot is ineffective? or study showing that GBS odds increase by getting a flu shot?
This year's flu vaccine is only 23 percent effective against this year's predominant strain, H3N2, according to a new report out today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the middle of a bad flu season, it turns out the vaccine doesn't offer much protection against the flu because the predominant strain is H3N2 because it has mutated since the vaccine was created and manufactured, according to the CDC.
On very rare occasions, they may develop GBS in the days or weeks after getting a vaccination.
23% = ineffective
CDC says flu shot increases chance of GBS.
Developing it in the days or weeks after getting the vaccine doesn't mean the vaccine caused that development.
So you took one year's effectiveness (and I'd still argue that 23% improvement is better than none) as gospel huh, or representative of the effectiveness in all years?
It's been < 50% effective for 7 of the last 11 years - http://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/vaccination/effectiveness-studies.htm
And it's been better than 23% 7 of those 10 years according to those stats. My point was that it doesn't make sense to cherry pick one year. It's averaged around ~40% effectiveness over the last 10 years.