Re:Coronavirus patients start to overwhelm US hospitals
by duxup on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:14AM
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The flu shot doesn't protect you from all / any flu.
Without some serious testing you're not likely to know what you got.
But even if we assume you did catch the flu, there have been long term effects that show that regular flu shots over a few years lessens the severity, occurrences of serious problems with the flu. So the benefits seem to go beyond a given vaccine.
With flu vaccines there seems to be both a specific benefit, but also more general benefit longer term.
Without some serious testing you're not likely to know what you got.
But even if we assume you did catch the flu, there have been long term effects that show that regular flu shots over a few years lessens the severity, occurrences of serious problems with the flu. So the benefits seem to go beyond a given vaccine.
With flu vaccines there seems to be both a specific benefit, but also more general benefit longer term.