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Most homes for the elderly here require flu vaccinations for all staff, and some even require flu vaccines for visitors. Why is that okay? New flu vaccines ar
by jiggawatts 4y ago
Most homes for the elderly here require flu vaccinations for all staff, and some even require flu vaccines for visitors.
Why is that okay?
New flu vaccines are developed annually because it’s a seasonal illness, which makes them just as “experimental” or “novel” as many COVID vaccines such as AstraZeneca that aren’t using mRNA technology.
Why is suddenly everyone up in arms about something they were fine with before?
When you can answer this honestly you’ll start to understand the problem.
- maxerickson 4y agoThe AstraZenica and Johnson and Johnson vaccines both use a relatively novel delivery mechanism (a couple viral vector Ebola vaccines were approved in 2019-2020). The Novavax subunit vaccine is at least an older approach, but assembling the protein fragments onto a particle is a new thing.
- curmudgeon22 4y agoI can't comment to staff, but I've never seen a retirement home or similar that required any kind of vaccination for visitors. Not to say they don't exist, but certainly they weren't part of a normal lived experience here.
- adamiscool8 4y agoThe rate of adverse events seen with the flu shots is a full order of magnitude lower than the COVID-19 vaccines. People are partially up in arms because there is a continued conflation of two very different safety profiles.
- jiggawatts 4y agoThe rate of adverse outcomes for COVID is several orders of magnitude higher than for the seasonal flu.
- adamiscool8 4y agoNot in all age+health cohorts.