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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by ballenf on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:15PM (#30092827)
Maybe it's just where I live, but I've never heard the "flu shot" called a vaccine.
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:42PM (#30093157)
The CDC calls them "Seasonal Flu Vaccines":

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm

So does the Mayo Clinic:

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/flushot.htm

I won't go on, but by definition, a medicine that you take that's intended to build up your immune response to a disease is a vaccine. I saw someone upstream write "Intramuscular/serum vaccines cannot stop respiratory infections, by definition," and as far as I can tell this is just point-blank wrong. Whooping Cough -- pertussis -- is a respiratory bacterial infection we've been vaccinating against with intramuscular shots since the 1940s.

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