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Old 01-30-2013, 04:56 PM
 
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Only 2.7 in 100 adults get the flu in the first place..A recent study published in the Lancet reveals that influenza vaccines only prevent influenza in 1.5 out of every 100 adults who get the vaccine.
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Old 01-30-2013, 05:00 PM
 
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Only 2.7 in 100 adults get the flu in the first place..A recent study published in the Lancet reveals that influenza vaccines only prevent influenza in 1.5 out of every 100 adults who get the vaccine.
Again link or it didn't happen.....
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Old 01-30-2013, 05:02 PM
 
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I effin' love it - "only" 62% effective. Damn, but you guys are whiny.
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Old 01-30-2013, 07:29 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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I effin' love it - "only" 62% effective. Damn, but you guys are whiny.
Exactly! And that's the overall efficacy. In some groups of people, it is much more effective.

CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Q & A: The Nasal-Spray Flu Vaccine (Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine [LAIV])
In one large study among children aged 15-85 months, the seasonal nasal-spray flu vaccine LAIV (FluMist®) reduced the chance of influenza illness by 92% compared with placebo.
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Old 01-30-2013, 07:35 PM
 
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Only 2.7 in 100 adults get the flu in the first place..A recent study published in the Lancet reveals that influenza vaccines only prevent influenza in 1.5 out of every 100 adults who get the vaccine.
A. How do you prove a negative?

b. As n actual healthcare worker, I can tell you hat the overwhelming majority of patients we have had come in with flu were unvaccinated.
That has been the trend everywhere.
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Old 01-30-2013, 07:42 PM
 
Location: Wonderland
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All I can tell you is that for about five years, my husband and I religiously got our flu shots - and eventually came down with the flue anyway.

For the past two years, we have NOT gotten the vaccine, and have NOT gotten the flu. So far so good this year. If either of us gets the flu, I will come back to the thread and eat crow.
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Old 01-30-2013, 07:56 PM
 
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A. How do you prove a negative?

b. As n actual healthcare worker, I can tell you hat the overwhelming majority of patients we have had come in with flu were unvaccinated.
That has been the trend everywhere.
It is certainly the case at our office.
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Old 01-30-2013, 08:27 PM
 
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All I can tell you is that for about five years, my husband and I religiously got our flu shots - and eventually came down with the flue anyway.

For the past two years, we have NOT gotten the vaccine, and have NOT gotten the flu. So far so good this year. If either of us gets the flu, I will come back to the thread and eat crow.
So you are trying to claim the flu shot gave you the flu and NOT getting it protected you in some way?
My immune system isn't the strongest and I've NEVER had the flu 5 years in a row, with or without an immunization. Once in the last 11 years to be exact, when I had younger kids in school. I've been sick for sure, I even had a bad cold a month after getting my flu shot this year but being sick is not having the flu, I'm sure you know that.

For what it's worth I don't believe you anyway.
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Old 01-30-2013, 08:39 PM
 
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I effin' love it - "only" 62% effective. Damn, but you guys are whiny.
Saline solution is 92% effective.
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Old 01-30-2013, 08:48 PM
 
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Europe took a whole different approach, no mass vaccine hysteria, and a whole lot fewer deaths. In the USA, the government attempts to vaccinate all healthy people, even forcifully, yet people are dropping like flies here from the flu. Not a very smart approach here.
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