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Last Year, the Flu Put Him in a Coma. This Year He's Getting the Shot
- tomohawk 8y agoA co worker last year ended up in the hospital with the flu. He had been vaccinated. He was told by the staff that vaccinated people appeared to be harder hit, so he is unlikely to get a flu vaccine again. He's no antivaxer. Yet, information on how effective these vaccines are seems hard to get and politically sensitive. The npr article states that weakened immune systems can put people at risk, yet the 1918 flu most severely affected those with the strongest immune systems. Many of the flu symptoms are due to immune response, and apparently that flu elicited a much stronger response and higher mortality amongst the healthy.