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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Flu shots are a different animal.
The medical community doesn't claim that the flush or will prevent any and all flu strains.
The flu shot is the medical community's best long term guess (they need time to prepare so they don't have all variables) at what strain of the flu will be rampant in a given year.
I'd be curious to see their effectiveness over a larger sample size than one year.
Also by giving the 9% effective rate (I would like to see a source on that) they are being transparent. Just like the effective rate of the vaccines being discussed in this thread (TB, whooping cough, etc).
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oh you didn't hear about that 9% effectiveness this year? Thats kinda my point...quick 10 second story about it on global news, similar situation when the province ran out of the vaccine. Months earlier it was day after day of nagging people to get the thing and the usual fear mongering