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Multiple Sclerosis => THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF BEING MULTIPLY SCLEROSED => Topic started by: agate on September 13, 2018, 04:29:30 pm

Title: Is it too early to get a flu shot?
Post by: agate on September 13, 2018, 04:29:30 pm

From Berkeley Wellness, "Is it too early to get a flu shot?"  According to the article (and a doctor I respect), early September could be too early for a flu shot to last through the flu season:


http://www.berkeleywellness.com/self-care/preventive-care/article/it-too-early-get-flu-shot?ap=400

Title: Re: Is it too early to get a flu shot?
Post by: agate on September 25, 2018, 07:01:19 am

More on this from Consumer Reports (September 8)--"Is It Too Soon to Get the Flu Vaccine?":


https://www.consumerreports.org/flu-vaccine/is-it-too-soon-to-get-the-flu-vaccine/?EXTKEY=NH89BBDHB&utm_source=acxiom&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180925_nsltr_health

Title: 80,000 Americans died from flu last year
Post by: agate on October 05, 2018, 07:33:41 pm

This brief article from NEJM Journal Watch (September 28, 2018), "80,000 Americans Died from Flu Last Year," contains some chilling facts about the flu.




https://www.jwatch.org/fw114620/2018/09/28/80-000-americans-died-flu-last-year?query=pfwTOC&jwd=000100983645&jspc=