Completely agree. The strains you need to worry about, like the one that caused the 1918 flu epidemic, were deadly because they caused a cytokine storm in healthy individuals with a functional immune system. So far, this year's version does not indicate that sort of immune response in healthy people. Stay away from any friggin' flu shot, IMHO...
It's interesting how the confirmed cases are distributed across the globe. Either Russians are immune to this variety of flu or the gov't refuses to report accurate numbers. As of today, the U.S. has 57236 confirmed cases and flu season hasn't even started. It seems like yesterday when the world was having a fit over the 1000+ cases in Mexico and the handful of confirmed cases in Texas and New York.
With such a low mortality rate as a % of infected people, even though this is apparently a very easily transmitted virus, I am leery of the cost-benefit (health wise) analysis of getting yet another vaccine, that may or may not work.
Yeah, that. And with a low mortality rate, probably more will die from vaccine complications than the flu itself.... even if there were no "God knows what".
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