Will flu jabs STOP you from being infected & passing it on?

by BoogerMan 6 Replies latest social current

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  BoogerMan

  According to Boots the Chemist, their £20 flu jab (free for over 65's) will stop infection and transmission! (probably)

  "Whilst no vaccine is 100% effective, having a flu jab will help protect you from catching flu and passing it on to others."

  https://www.boots.com/online/pharmacy-services/winter-flu-jab-services?srsltid=AfmBOorKiZ37qyBkdBBYFIJ7_iI1zyTWkFFhGagPllU7Jxzg_MaQDbqd

  The NHS says similar - but with a couple of get-out-of-jail caveats:

  "The flu vaccine aims to protect you against the most common types of flu viruses. There's still a chance you might get flu after getting vaccinated, but it's likely to be milder and not last as long. The vaccine helps protect you from getting the flu. If you do get flu and have been vaccinated, the symptoms are likely to be milder and not last as long. It also helps to reduce the spread of flu and may protect those around you from getting ill."

  I'm no virologist or scientist, but AFAIK, the only way to prevent infection & transmission of any virus is to wear a Hazmat Suit.
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  peacefulpete

  Exposure involves introduction of the virus into your system. An active infection (disease) is defined by the proliferation of that virus within your system, and it's affects. Some vaccines in some immune systems are sufficiently effective so to prevent proliferation of the virus. The person will never know they had the virus in them and so did not have the disease and are very unlikely to be shedding the virus to others.

  That would be the ideal outcome.

  However, in many cases the vaccine primes the immune system to recognize a novel virus and respond more quickly. It gives the body a head start in the race by already having matching or nearly matching immune response cells in the blood stream.
  
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  a watcher

  No.
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  Anony Mous

  The flu vaccine is based on last year’s or older strains, by the time you get it, you are anywhere from 2 (in the US) to 4-6 (EU) evolutions of the virus away and your body likely already has the antibodies. If the flu vaccine were even half as effective as they say it is we wouldn’t have the flu anymore.
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  BoogerMan

  How many of these 18,000 + fatalities had received the wonderful flu jab, I wonder?

  "Latest UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data shows that over the past 2 winters (October to May, 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024) at least 18,000 deaths were associated with flu, despite last winter being a relatively mild flu season." https://www.gov.uk/government/news/18000-flu-related-deaths-in-past-2-winters-as-jab-uptake-falls
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  KerryKing

  The NHS defense of vaccines sounds much like the WT explaining it's doctrines, maybe, likely, might.....😅
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  TonusOH

  My understanding was that a vaccine would immunize the recipient, preventing infection and reducing the number of vectors for contagious diseases to spread.

  Flu shots were an amalgam of likely strains that were meant to reduce the severity of flu infections and thus reduce the number of hospital stays and deaths. It would not immunize you, though it would probably reduce transmission to some extent.

  The COVID shots sound a lot more like a flu shot than a vaccine. But we've updated the definition of 'vaccine' to include shots like the flu shot, which do not immunize but are meant to blunt the severity of flu season. I wish we'd found a different term for the COVID shots, because the word 'vaccine' no longer means what it used to mean.