State public health officials urged residents this week to get a flu vaccine, especially if they are part of a high-risk group such as those age 65 and older.
Flu season typically lasts from October to May and begins to accelerate in November and December, according to the California Department of Public Health.
Last year’s flu season was likely blunted by public health measures enacted in response to the state’s winter COVID-19 surge, but the potential for outbreaks of both viruses still looms this year, CDPH Director and state Public Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon said.
“In the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic, a severe flu season could be devastating for California,” Aragon said. “Getting a flu shot is a safe and simple thing we can all do to keep people out of the hospital and reduce the strain on our health care system.”
Flu vaccines are recommended for everyone six months old or older, but are particularly important for high-risk groups, including people who smoke or have underlying health issues, pregnant women, children age 5 or younger, long-term care facility residents and employees and workers in industries that are deemed essential.
CDPH officials also noted that it is safe to receive a flu vaccine and a COVID-19 vaccine on the same day.
Flu vaccines are available and low or no cost at most retail pharmacies, health care providers, clinics and some local health departments. Retail pharmacies will also accept most insurance, including Medi-Cal, CDPH officials said.
I have never gotten a flu vaccination and I have never had the flu not one time in my life and I don’t ever plan on getting a flu vaccination in the future.
The so-called officials can urge all they want but it don’t mean a damn thing in this household.
WRONG.
The reason that flu deaths dropped 97% in 2020…….is because IT WAS RENAMED AS “COVID”.
2+2 = 5
You got that right. We know someone that died in a car accident and on death certificate cause of death read Covid related. Talk about a life insurance nightmare because of that, and the family finally won but the death cert stayed the same.
We know someone who died from terminal cancer and sepsis. Not a single person in his house tested positive for covid, but he magically did when taken to the ER for intractable pain. He died hours later from SEPSIS, but on the top of his death certificate, it said COVID. SMDH. These people have no shame and no morals.
Why are they suddenly calling everything a vaccine?
Well, they call vaccines vaccines, because that’s what they are. I know the Covid deniers are unclear on the concept, talking about “gene therapy” and other BS. I’ve gotten an annual flu shot for years and haven’t gotten the flu, even though I was commuting on BART.
Is the flu shot not a vaccine? I seem to see the word “vaccine” associated with vaccines.
Whatchoo seein?
Soon to be mandated. Along with shingles, pneumonia, and whatever the science dictates is fot the public good. No jab, no job!
@Nope nope nope: “Nope,” they haven’t suddenly begun calling everything a vaccine. Do a little research on smallpox, mumps, polio, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, etc. All prevented by miracle, time-tested “vaccines.”
Seems like 2020 was the first year that the common cold was tracked. Probably up until they didn’t bother because most people recover from the common cold (like > 99.9%). Hmmm… 🤔
Colin Powell died because he had a blood cancer that killed his immunity to fight any infection.
…….but Colin Powell WAS FULLY VAXXED!!!
@ Anon
which part of “he had a blood cancer that killed his immunity to fight any infection” did you not understand?
Stop with the BS Anon, and learn how vaccines really work. All vaccines are less effective in immunocompromised people. That’s why it’s important to vaccinate as many people as possible.
Also, his family released a statement encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID.
“DLo”,
What part of mRNA injections are “vaccines”?
That’s Correct…….THEY ARE NOT!
But nice of Websters & CDC to change the definition.
You’ll all find out when the HIV kicks in along with the ADE.
You have all Destroyed your immune systems for “science”.
Anon, you really should seek help to pull yourself out of your conspiracy theory rabbit hole. The mRNA covid vaccines are vaccines. You don’t get HIV from them.
Those who don’t believe in vaccines for anything should not get any. After all, only millions of people die all the time from all kinds of virus’s and various bacteria, so there is no reason to get them. Happy flu season.
Just wait until this One Party System here in California “mandates” seasonal flu vaccines. You know it’s coming because it’s for the common good…right?
State officials are in the pocket of big pharma.
Flu is virtually gone (0.2% of tested, vs 30% in past years). https://www.cdc.gov/flu/season/faq-flu-season-2020-2021.htm
• 2018-2019: 490,561 Influenza (FLU) hospitalizations. 34,157 FLU deaths. (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html)
• 2019-2020: 400,000 Influenza (FLU) hospitalizations. 22,000 FLU deaths.
(https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/flu-season-records-lowest-rate-of-hospitalizations-on-record/ar-BB1dLGuq)
• 2020: 165 Influenza hospitalizations.
(https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/flu-season-records-lowest-rate-of-hospitalizations-on-record/ar-BB1dLGuq)
Flu deaths have been replaced by COVID deaths.
CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR (PCR TEST) cannot facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. – https://www.cdc.gov/csels/dls/locs/2021/07-21-2021-lab-alert-Changes_CDC_RT-PCR_SARS-CoV-2_Testing_1.html
Humans have existed without flu shots forever. People are living right now who have never had a flu shot. They’re not making these flu shots for free.
Sweden has had NO LOCKDOWNS and NO MASKS. Their Crude Death rate is LOWER in 2020 than 2018.
A 2020 study on pandemic influenza the US CDC found that face masks have no effect: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
Consider:
• Influenza size = 50–140 nanometers
• Covid-19 size- = 80–120 nanometers
A Danish randomized controlled trial with 6000 participants, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in November 2020, found no statistically significant effect of high-quality medical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection in a community setting. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
A large randomized controlled trial with close to 8000 participants, published in October 2020 in PLOS One, found that face masks “did not seem to be effective against laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections nor against clinical respiratory infection.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240287
A February 2021 review by the European CDC found no high-quality evidence in favor of face masks and recommended their use only based on the ‘precautionary principle’. https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/covid-19-face-masks-community-first-update.pdf
A July 2020 review by the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine found that there is no evidence for the effectiveness of face masks against virus infection or transmission. https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/
An August 2021 study published in the Int. Research Journal of Public Health found “no association between mask mandates or use and reduced COVID-19 spread in US states.” https://escipub.com/irjph-2021-08-1005/
A 2015 study in the British Medical Journal BMJ Open found that cloth masks were penetrated by 97% of particles and may increase infection risk by retaining moisture or repeated use. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577
Your conclusion is flat out unscientific and based on anecdotes/feelings. Please do not debate me until you accept the salvation of science and abandon the 2nd week advent covidian anti-science religion.
And funny enough you didn’t google this one:
“Sweden has had NO LOCKDOWNS and NO MASKS. Their Crude Death rate is LOWER in 2020 than 2018.”
https://tinyurl.com/h4kw2mtc
“The crude death rate in Sweden was down at the lowest point in 2019, when 8.6 deaths occurred per thousand mid-year population. In 2020, however, the crude death rate increased and amounted to 9.6 deaths. Almost 98 thousand individuals died during 2020 in Sweden. In 2020, the crude death rate in Sweden was influenced by the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis”
Well, nope and nope. Why get this if everyone is already masked? I mean, I have to for work every year. so I deal with it. I have always taken my kids to get it, too. But, this year I am NOT taking my kids to get the flu shot. What is the point????
The point is the little stabby thing on the end of the needle
No. Im done with vaccines. No more. The lying medical establishment, in bed with liberals and big pharma, have destroyed my faith in anything they recommend. No jabs for me or mine ever again.