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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
Some quick research finds that yes, it is more sever for people 19-64, than people 65+, however neither are considered high risk groups. So, I'm still in a low risk group, just not as low risk as my senior friends.
Primary group for the shot is:
-People under 65 with chronic health conditions
-Pregnant women
-Children 6 months to less than 5 years of age
-People living in remote and isolated settings or communities
-Health care workers involved in pandemic response or the delivery of essential health care services
-Household contacts and care providers of persons at high risk who cannot be immunized or may not respond to vaccines
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To me I look at the high risk group and say am I going to be around anyone in the High Risk group. If the answer is yes I should get the Flu shot even if there is a small possibility of it being harmful. This means if you ride the C-Train you should get a Shot to protect others regardless of the risk to yourself.
I have been amazed at how powerful the anti-vaccine lobby has gotten. Even with all of the studies showing MMR doesn't lead to Autism people are still afraid of getting childhood vaccines.
Now doing some simple risk analysis. Let's say the flu vaccine guarentees that i won't die (not true) and the risk of some negative outcome from the vaccine is 1 in 100,000 how many people have to die in canada from the flu for it to be worth it to get the vaccine. So if 30 million people /.1million = 300. Since 83 have already died it is quite likely we will exceed this number.
Based on the above illustration you would have to estimate the odds that getting vaccine will kill 1 in 100,000 people for you to choose not to get it. Other wise a risk assessement will lead you to get the vaccine.