Are you immune to flu?
Oct 29th 2017, 3:59 pm
#46
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
if you're wondering if its a cold or the flu then you have a cold
Oct 11th 2018, 7:58 pm
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Oct 11th 2018, 8:51 pm
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Oct 11th 2018, 9:20 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
Once the free ones are out Ill get one. They might out so need to call and ask.
Oct 12th 2018, 12:11 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
Apparently Public health in Toronto hasn't released them yet. I called into my pharmacy on the way home and they said around the week of the 15th
Oct 12th 2018, 6:50 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
This years flu vaccine contains:
Looks like end of October for freebies, seems some pharmacies do have their own stock, but have to pay for those, not everyone in BC qualifies for free shots, so pharmacies bring in their own supply to sell.
- A/Michigan/45/2015 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus
- A/Singapore/INFIMH-16-0019/2016 (H3N2)-like virus
- B/Colorado/06/2017-like virus
- B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (in quadrivalent vaccines only)
Looks like end of October for freebies, seems some pharmacies do have their own stock, but have to pay for those, not everyone in BC qualifies for free shots, so pharmacies bring in their own supply to sell.
Oct 16th 2018, 11:35 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
Stepdaughter got hers today and as usual her arm is absolute agony for a day or two. Like frozen shoulder.
Oct 21st 2018, 5:38 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
Got mine on Friday, it’s mandatory with work, otherwise I have to wear one of those god awful surgical masks when I’m working.
i wouldn’t get it if I didn’t have to
i wouldn’t get it if I didn’t have to
Oct 22nd 2018, 4:39 am
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
Never had a vaccine for flu. Never had the flu.
Oct 22nd 2018, 12:58 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
With respect thats like saying: "Never worn a seatbelt. Never had an accident that needed one". Except that not wearing a seatbelt only risks you. Not having a flu vaccination risks the population as a whole, not just the individual. Herd immunity and all that.
Flu jab rollouts here start Oct 22nd. The provincial govt in their infinite wisdom has stopped paying doctors to give them in preference to public clinics. That's fair does as a better application of resource but if you can't get to a clinic then you have little alternative but to pay for one through a pharmacy (who are able to give them as well.). Some employers - mine being one of them - hold vaccination clinics at work. (& we're not in the healthcare field). With a daughter who's medical history makes her susceptible to respiratory infections and a wife who is a teacher, getting the flu shot isn't optional in this house.
Flu jab rollouts here start Oct 22nd. The provincial govt in their infinite wisdom has stopped paying doctors to give them in preference to public clinics. That's fair does as a better application of resource but if you can't get to a clinic then you have little alternative but to pay for one through a pharmacy (who are able to give them as well.). Some employers - mine being one of them - hold vaccination clinics at work. (& we're not in the healthcare field). With a daughter who's medical history makes her susceptible to respiratory infections and a wife who is a teacher, getting the flu shot isn't optional in this house.
Oct 22nd 2018, 1:12 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
I’m immune-suppressed so not getting an annual flu jab would be a risky decision. Many years ago I had flu and recall asking for death, as the misery wasn’t worth the living for. The problem with the flu shot is there’s no way of knowing it it prevented one from getting the dreadful condition. I guess it’s the same with the mountain of medications I absorb every morning and evening.
Oct 22nd 2018, 2:49 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
Flu jab rollouts here start Oct 22nd. The provincial govt in their infinite wisdom has stopped paying doctors to give them in preference to public clinics. That's fair does as a better application of resource but if you can't get to a clinic then you have little alternative but to pay for one through a pharmacy (who are able to give them as well.).
With a daughter who's medical history makes her susceptible to respiratory infections and a wife who is a teacher, getting the flu shot isn't optional in this house.
Oct 22nd 2018, 2:56 pm
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Oct 22nd 2018, 3:58 pm
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Re: Are you immune to flu?
Most in BC seem to go to clinics and pharmacies.
The province distributes the free vaccine for those who are covered to pharmacies so its pretty easy to get one with no need to see a doctor.
The pharmacies also bring in their own vaccine supply to sell to those not covered.
The province distributes the free vaccine for those who are covered to pharmacies so its pretty easy to get one with no need to see a doctor.
The pharmacies also bring in their own vaccine supply to sell to those not covered.