Nah he waited til he recovered to announce it. If ya smelllllllllllelelel…
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Now you tell me. CDC roughly agrees and we can definitely trust them, right?
You should get a flu vaccine before flu viruses begins spreading in your community, since it takes about two weeks after vaccination for antibodies to develop in the body and provide protection against flu. Make plans to get vaccinated early in fall, before flu season begins. CDC recommends that people get a flu vaccine by the end of October. However, getting vaccinated early (for example, in July or August) is likely to be associated with reduced protection against flu infection later in the flu season, particularly among older adults.
I do trust them on this because I’m pretty sure that’s always been the guidance. The immunity lasts 4-6 months IIRC, so you ideally want to get it just in time to cover you the entire season.
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I also encourage people to post ITT when they get their flu shots so the rest of us are reminded. I’ll try to remember to do the same if I remember to get mine on time. It’ll be right after I move, so it’ll be a busy time.
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I’m planning to get mine in early to mid October. I’ll likely be pretty quarantined still until then, and what cuse said about longevity of effectiveness is true afaik.
Everyone that can get a flu shot please get one.
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Well, I’m not getting a second shot in January or whenever. My plan is “hey, it’s just the flu.”
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This is stupid and wrong
Good post, thanks for sharing your wisdom with the forum with that terrific contribution.
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Stop yapping about medical shit you know nothing about. You’re wrong, and telling people to delay getting a flu shot is dumb normally and exceptionally dumb this year.
FWIW I’ve had doctors tell me to get it at the end of September in years past.
Does Harvard Medical School know nothing about it? I guess they’re exceptionally dumb, too. They say it lasts 4-6 months for some people and October is the optimal time. They say not to try to time it perfectly and miss taking it all together, but also that the best time is October.
But I guess I’m just an asshole who yaps about shit I know nothing about because I’m an exceptional moron.
At least I’m not an asshole who offers no further explanation of why others are dumb and provides no additional value or information to the discussion.
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Your article:
“In simplest terms, the best time to get a flu shot is anytime you can.”
Getting flu shots out to 190 million people is a huge undertaking and delaying it based on no data is irresponsible. Telling other people to delay is straight up idiotic and fundamentally opposed to what every public health person would say. And man, I really doubt you paid the 5 bucks to actually read that whole article.
Anyways, the CDC says it’s fine now. The 2017 article you link (but probably didn’t read) is also also a different type of flu shot than the one this year. I’m not sure if that’s relevant exactly but the release date of this isn’t coincidental.
But hey you clearly did a quick google and posted a link to something you likely didn’t actually read.
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I read it, had access to the whole thing for free for whatever reason when I Googled it, and I’ve researched it before. I trust this group to be more responsible recipients of advice than the general public vis a vis timing it vs forgetting about it.
If you had/have specific information about this shot versus others, data that says September is just as good, or opinions on the magnitude of 190 million people getting shots and the timing of it, you could have just shared that and not been an asshole.
Especially since I started my post on this with “Obligatory IANAD” and ended the first sentence with “I think,” leaving plenty of room for someone in a medical field to correct me if they wanted to and had better information. Plenty of room to do so without being an asshole.
But assholes gonna asshole.
yeah consider it done then. stop giving bad medical advice.
So your medical advice is to get it now, rather than waiting until 10/1?
So Harvard Medical School is giving bad medical advice and you disagree with their advice? They literally have a page dedicated to making this information publicly available.
His medical advice is that I’m a moron and nothing further apparently needs to be said.
There’s no compelling reason at all to wait. There’s good reason why the CDC and every public health organization encourages getting it done starting now. There’s no reason to rush out either. I’ll get mine whenever they are giving it to employees while I’m on shift.
The only part of your article I can actually read is, “In simplest terms, the best time to get a flu shot is anytime you can.” A non-peer reviewed harvard newsletter post doesn’t trump the CDC.
The preview text literally says October is best.
An excerpt:
Flu season in North America rarely begins before early October and usually lasts from December to March. In the past two years, the peak activity has occurred around mid-to-late February. Your body needs two weeks after a shot to develop a protective responsive to the influenza virus, so your best bet is to get your shot before the influenza rate begins to climb.
You might think that getting the vaccine as early as possible is better. In fact, some pharmacy chains offer the vaccine in August. For most people, a yearly flu vaccination offers protection for almost a year. However, some studies suggest that the benefit of vaccination begins to decline after four to six months, especially in older individuals.
Also, it is unclear if the newer high-dose flu shot for people older than 65 provides longer-lasting protection, so a vaccination in August could begin to lose some of its effect as early as December or January, right before peak flu activity. Getting your flu shot in October gives the vaccine enough time to kick in and keep you protected throughout the entire flu season.
— by William Kormos, M.D.
Editor in Chief, Harvard Men’s Health Watch
Meanwhile let’s check in with the CDC:
Make plans to get vaccinated early in fall, before flu season begins. CDC recommends that people get a flu vaccine by the end of October. However, getting vaccinated early (for example, in July or August) is likely to be associated with reduced protection against flu infection later in the flu season, particularly among older adults.
Fall starts 9/22, so the CDC recommends 9/22 to 10/31 as the best time.
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