The flu vaccine just recently became available for this coming season. I took mine last week. There were no after affects. To the right is a microscopic shot of a typical flu virus.
Depending on your medical plan, you could pay anywhere from zero to $15. If you have none, the cost should be $30 at most. Drugstores usually give a $5-$10 discount.
The flu this past year was intense:
Today, I read that TAKING A FLU SHOT CAN LOWER THE PROBABILITY OF HEART ATTACK BY 45%. Further, if you're old, like me, if you actually get the flu, your chances of death are reduced by 80%.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
Depending on your medical plan, you could pay anywhere from zero to $15. If you have none, the cost should be $30 at most. Drugstores usually give a $5-$10 discount.
The flu this past year was intense:
Today, I read that TAKING A FLU SHOT CAN LOWER THE PROBABILITY OF HEART ATTACK BY 45%. Further, if you're old, like me, if you actually get the flu, your chances of death are reduced by 80%.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
- EVERYONE from 6 months of age and older should get an annual flu shot around now.
- Somewhere just under 139 million doses will be made available this season, which means less than half of the U.S. population will take this step.
- You need to take this shot (or nasal spray) yearly.
- Both the shot and the mist work equally well, but the aftereffect from the injection will be less than the spray because the former uses dead influenza virus while the nasal spray uses live vaccine where the virus is merely weakened.
- If I read this correctly, there are two types of vaccine this year:
- trivalent (to protect agains three flu viruses), which will be available by injection and nasal spray
- quadrivalent (against four viruses) by nasal spray
- hmmm, my doctor only had the trivalent by injection--if I had a known choice, I would have gotten the one for four viruses because I hate injections.
The reasons why more than half don't take the flu shot?
Don't be one of them. Now you can add: flu shots reduce the probability of heart attack by 45%.
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