Flu shots don't always work because they guess which strain of flu will be the culprit that year. So if they make a vaccine for example flu type 1 but flu type 4 is going around then in return you get sick..
Originally Posted by Amiliah Rayne
Flu shots just don't always work. They just mostly don't work. They don't "guess", they take top the top 4 culprits from last year and put them in the current years vaccine. The problem is the flu mutates and this years version(s) that gets you sick well has beaten last years bug.
Here's the big problem: there is no evidence that this really works as well as advertised. With polio, they can measure who had the shot, who didn't, who got polio, etc. With the flu, there's really no real study. How many people here got the flu in the last few years and were called by the CDC? Did you really have the flu? Did you get a shot? Or was it "flu like" symptoms and you took some Tamiflu or chicken soup and it was over in a few days? Or did somebody die?
The study I saw was done by one of the vaccine manufacturers and their best GUESS was 50% coverage. It is bullshit.
Do I believe in vaccines? I got the shingles vaccine two years ago and haven't gotten it. I would encourage women to get the HPV vaccine. Both of these vaccines have an advertised 50% effectiveness rate. Damn sure my kids have their polio shots or droplets.
But do I believe in everybody having every vaccine? No. Last I heard most of the people who got polio got it from the polio vaccine.