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Moostache

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3. The annual flu vaccine is usually because they guess at the most likely strains to break out...

Reply to Jeebo (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 17, 2020, 11:32 AM

Jul 2020

The flu has many strains that come and go in waves and I am not 100% versed on the outbreaks and mechanisms that drive it, but I do know that the vaccine is an annual "best guess".

If COVID-19 mutates (which is 100% certain) and becomes something even worse, we would be truly finished as collective society.

This looks like a facinating read on the subject: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm

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With coronavirus antibodies fading fast, vaccine hopes fade, too [View all] Auggie Jul 2020 OP

My doctor gives me an annual flu shot in his office. Jeebo Jul 2020 #1

The annual flu vaccine is usually because they guess at the most likely strains to break out... Moostache Jul 2020 #3

Our own antibodies wane, not the vaccine ... Auggie Jul 2020 #5

Hope for vaccine wanes. LisaL Jul 2020 #7

Yes, the immunity from flu vaccine doesn't last very long LisaL Jul 2020 #8

Just wait until the damn thing mutates into a MORE lethal form... Moostache Jul 2020 #2

+1 John1956PA Jul 2020 #4

Pandemic + climate change! And we get a front row seat! Auggie Jul 2020 #6

Welp, it's been fun kids! durablend Jul 2020 #9

Not only does the flu virus mutate every year, and sometimes PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #10

Antivirals the key crimycarny Jul 2020 #11

Thanks for posting this again Auggie Jul 2020 #12

Of course there is hope...lately people want to focus on chaos because pbmus Jul 2020 #14

I call it "disaster porn" crimycarny Jul 2020 #15

PSA: No one knows how long antibodies may or may not last DeminPennswoods Jul 2020 #13

We could all just mask up, distance, act responsibly, and starve the virus of new hosts. Midnight Writer Jul 2020 #16

What is the vaccine then that is being tested marlakay Jul 2020 #17