Flu vaccine in Hua Hin

[Big Boy]

I take it all with a pinch of salt these days. For well over 2 years now we have been hearing about how useless Covid vaccines are, yet I'll bet there are over 6 million people who wish they'd had the vaccine, whilst millions more survivors happily queued like cattle to get their vaccine.

Everybody has a choice. I don't need to hear that I'll grow another head if they inject me. Just tell me a vaccine is available, and I will decide if I want it. I don't need millions of anonymous social media naysayers telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

[HHTel]

Spot on BB. I'd always go with the data and the data as far as Covid goes is that taking the vaccine is a no brainer.

There are lots of reports of victims of Covid that state sincerely that they wish they'd taken the vaccine. Sadly, for many, that was there last words.

Regarding the 'flu vaccine, some protection is better than none at all.

[handdrummer]

For what it's worth.

A friend in Sydney has been vaccinated against the flu, yearly, for the past 4 years, and every year he has had the flu.

I guess it doesn't work for everyone.

I've never been vaccinated and I've never had the flu. I shall assume, rightly or wrongly, that it's the functioning of my immune system that keeps me healthy.

Flu vaccines have never had a particularly high rate of efficacy against symptomatic disease. Routinely, it's in the 30-60% range but sometimes lower than that even. However as that NBC article points out, they should still give protection against severe disease.

For instance, how sick was your friend in Australia - were they seriously ill, or just mildly?

Also are you sure they definitely had the flu? Most doctors and clinics don't actually test for the flu, they just go by the symptoms. He could possibly have had a heavy cold, an adenovirus or a mild bacterial respiratory infection, leading to flu-like symptoms (unless of course, he was actually tested).

But in any event, you can't really base things on a sample size of two (you and your friend in Australia).

I don't know the answers to your, questions, I only know what I was told.

[HHTel]

Covid is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways

At one point last month, children were admitted to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with a startling range of seven respiratory viruses. They had adenovirus and rhinovirus, respiratory syncytial virus and human metapneumovirus, influenza and parainfluenza, as well as the coronavirus — which many specialists say is to blame for the unusual surges.

“That’s not typical for any time of year and certainly not typical in May and June,” said Thomas Murray, an infection-control expert and associate professor of pediatrics at Yale. Some children admitted to the hospital were co-infected with two viruses and a few with three, he said.

More than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, familiar viruses are acting in unfamiliar ways. Respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, typically limits its suffocating assaults to the winter months.

Rhinovirus, cause of the common cold, rarely sends people to the hospital.

And the flu, which seemed to be making a comeback in December after being a no-show the year before, disappeared again in January once the omicron variant of the coronavirus took hold. Now flu is back, but without one common lineage known as Yamagata, which hasn’t been spotted since early 2020. It could have gone extinct or may be lying in wait to attack our unsuspecting immune systems, researchers said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... v-viruses/

[handdrummer]

All of the last two years sound like Revelation 16. (If I remember the number correctly)

[Big Boy]

I've seen the following where San Paulo are offering to vaccinate against 4 strains of flu..................

Vaccine against 4 species of influenza today - 31 December 2022 at San Paolo Hospital Hua Hin.

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[lomuamart]

I'm glad I'm getting out of this messed up country for a while.

Covid, monkey stuff, reefer madness etc.

I give up.

[Big Boy]

Out of the pot and into the frying pan?

It was the NHS who recommended Mrs BB & I have a flu shot every year.

[Big Boy]

Because it was a no waiting type of service, and the timing was sort of perfect with us being between Covid jabs, Mrs BB and I went down for this vaccine this morning. Although it was done, we were twice questioned (first by the nurse, and then by the doctor) about our last Covid jab date, and they were not confident we should have the flu jab.

Service was very efficient.

Its all done now, so that's it for another year

[joelle]

Because it was a no waiting type of service, and the timing was sort of perfect with us being between Covid jabs, Mrs BB and I went down for this vaccine this morning. Although it was done, we were twice questioned (first by the nurse, and then by the doctor) about our last Covid jab date, and they were not confident we should have the flu jab.

Service was very efficient.

Its all done now, so that's it for another year

Did you go to San Paulo or to the Red Cross ?

[Big Boy]

San Paulo as per the poster. I've been hearing of long waiting times at the Red Cross. I was walking around Khao Tao lake by 9am this morning after our jabs.

[joelle]

San Paulo as per the poster. I've been hearing of long waiting times at the Red Cross. I was walking around Khao Tao lake by 9am this morning after our jabs.