The flu shot is still a good idea for everyone over 6 months of age.
But another reason is the relatively low percentage of patients who received a flu shot.
Many people, especially young people, have been spared the flu this season because of the flu shot.
In the end, they couldn't prove that the flu shot helps the elderly survived the flu season.
It is important to note that you do not get the flu after receiving a flu shot.
The process of making influenza vaccines is fundamentally unchanged since Jonas Salk injected the first flu shot in 1943.
Finally, the flu shot does not always work -- particularly among the elderly and people with weak immune systems.
It takes about 2 weeks to build up immunity (antibodies) to influenza after you have had the flu shot.
Getting a flu shot while you're healthy won't give you 100% protection, but it is your best bet.
Frequent travellers are exposed to germs more often than non-travellers, so consider getting a flu shot early in the season.
So far this year, the flu shot has failed to show a significant drop in doctor visits for people over sixty-five.
Viruses usually have to be rendered inert to work in humanity's favor, as anyone who has received a flu shot can attest.
"One of the questions we got was whether the president got his flu shot, " Toiv said, adding that the answer was yes.
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The reason that seniors were not prioritized was because, unlike the seasonal flu shot, H1N1 was deadliest in young people and particularly children.
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"The best thing you can do to protect yourself and your family is to get the flu shot, " Mayor Thomas Menino told reporters.
And, though a flu shot won't give you the flu, its protection doesn't kick in for two weeks from the time of injection.
The long and short of it is, the flu shot seems to be cutting back significantly on flu cases, which will benefit us all.
Meanwhile, get your flu shot, because the flu mutates so fast that we need a new vaccine every year to keep ahead of it.
And I encourage everyone else to get your flu shot, get your kids vaccinated, and then go see a movie at an AMC theater.
She said she was expecting supplies to be replenished next month and noted that plenty of time remains to get the seasonal flu shot.
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An annual flu shot is a must, and she got one for whooping cough too when an epidemic of pertussis erupted a few years ago.
In addition, less than half of school-age children -- the population mainly responsible for spreading the flu virus -- got the flu shot, experts said.
CVS, too, has seen major growth in its flu shot business.
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Sometimes they're wrong, and that makes the flu shot less effective.
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