Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity

Re:Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity by munk-a on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:23PM (#27680543)

The flu shot that's available each year doesn't undergo long term trials - it actually usually goes through about nine months to a year of trials due to predictions on what the flu outbreak will look like - but even then the substance is a reconfiguration of technology with new details being integrated.

In some areas of medicine we can afford to move slowly and we absolutely should - but when it comes to the flu we don't have that luxury.

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Re:Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may produce lasting immunity by jaywalk on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:09PM (#27681081)

And outside of some specific professions, the yearly flu shot is entirely optional. We don't have people running around screaming that you're a murderer or that you should be excluded from society if you choose not to get it. It's a personal medical decision, and that's the end of it.

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