Thinking this year is more important than ever to have flu vaccine?

[ellieboulou33]

Big debate on our class what's app about the annual school flu vaccine, I've kept quiet with my opinion as prefer to remain neutral on these group chats but have replied saying my children would be having it.

On here I'm anonymous so can give my view which is, I think it's so important this year more than ever to vaccinate!

With everything going on I think any additional protection is a bonus.

A few mums are ranting that they don't trust it and for those that ARE vaccinating our kids, we had better take time to look up what goes into it.

AIBU to be pro flu vaccine?

Get it every year and think everyone who can should. I'd ignore the ones discouraging it.

Nah, wouldn't touch it, neither will my kids (grown up), nor for their kids.
Read up about it, then make up your mind.
I bet there will be far fewer cases anyway as most will have covid.
Or be protected by masks and all this hand sanitising.

Had mine today.

I have asked for my children to have it and am hoping to have it through work this year too.

My DC have been having the nasal vaccine for a number of years and will be this year if offered. No side affects, no bouts of flu.

Anti-vaxxers are morons.

I’ll be having it, my kids are having it and I’ll be giving it to about 100 colleagues at work, including all the Drs, consultants and nurses.
No question.

My kids have never had the nasal one and won’t be having it this year.

My DC have been getting it for several years now and will be getting it this year too, DH and will also be getting our flu jabs.

Not anti vac for all other vaccinations But def wont have flu jab neither will my children

It's not offered to people like me or DC.
I'm fed up of controls everywhere i look, everything I try to do, obstacle course city. This has put me off doing anything extra.

That is Even though I eagerly signed up for a flu jab last year (offered in old job, delivered downstairs from office).

This winter I shall choose to "live dangerously" (not at all, in reality) and not make any effort (would be large) to get a jab not offered to me or mine nor free.

We've all had it. Before you skip it consider that you may be exposed to both covid-19 and the flu this winter.

I will absolutely have the flu vaccine - will pay for it -and will ensure my children have it. The last thing the NHS need with a possible second wave of covid is high levels of flu to contend with too.

I'll be getting the jab beginning of October.
I've just signed DC's forms for the nasal at school.
I agree that it's especially important this year.

I will be having the jab to protect me and my patients.

My kids have had every other vaccine but never bothered with the flu vaccine and don't plan to start this year.

May I ask why those who are opposed to it, are, if not anti-vax in general? Thank you.

I'm not anti vac either but I won't be giving it to my dc, and haven't in previous years. They are young, no health problems etc. I work for nhs and won't be having it either. I'm also relatively young, healthy and have never had flu. Even if we got it the chances are we'd be fine plus it won't do anything to protect against Corona.

I will be having it and so will my kids. The double whammy of Covid and flue doesn’t bear thinking about.
And as for “reading up” on it, I have thank you. I have a scientific background and wound rather rely on the science and the data than a bunch of anti-vaxxers on the internet

Agree with op, anything that helps is a good thing. DS normally gets his from the GP (he has neurological issues) but last year he didn't get it til December, so paying privately in Boots so he can get it this month.
I was ill for about 6 weeks after mine last year but am still getting it done. My cousin got flu 2 years ago and ended up in ICU when it developed into pneumonia.

I shan’t be having it.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/09/study-signals-association-between-flu-vaccine-miscarriage

As a teacher I’m having it for the first time this year. Don’t fancy the Covid/flu double whammy

I'm getting mine down privately at Boots tomorrow! Both my kids will have the spray at school. Wish I could pay for the spray tbh!

Have been paying to have it done our privately for the last few years after catching flu in December 2017 and being completely debilitated and incapacitated by it for at least a week. Never want to go through that again if I have a chance to avoid it!

I've been paying to get it the last few years as I'm a contractor and do not want to take the financial hit of a potential few weeks off. Two colleagues had it a couple of years ago and were both off 3+ weeks. I've had flu twice in my lifetime and have no desire to get it again. And my dd will be having the nasal spray. Why the fuck wouldn't you want to protect your children from a nasty virus if you could.

[quote Funkypolar]I shan’t be having it.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2017/09/study-signals-association-between-flu-vaccine-miscarriage[/quote]
From the article

"We are not saying this is a causal relationship," said James Donahue, DVM, PhD, MPH, a senior epidemiologist at the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin and the lead author of the study, meaning the data don't necessarily show that the flu vaccine causes miscarriages. "There's no biological basis for this phenomenon, so the study represents something that wasn't expected."

"In a previous study conducted on flu vaccine and miscarriage, we did not see a risk," said Donahue, referring to research conducted from 2005 to 2007. That study was conducted after the CDC made the recommendation 2004 that all pregnant woman in all trimesters get the seasonal flu shot. The CDC requested a follow-up study after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

No change to recommendations

Both Donahue and Edward Belongia, MD, the director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Population Health at the Marshfield Clinic and a study coauthor, said this study in no way suggests reversing or revising the CDC's recommendations pertaining to pregnant women and flu shots.

"It's very well known that getting the flu is bad for pregnant woman and bad for the baby, and we have a vast amount of safety data on the vaccine," said Belongia.

Devlesko

Nah, wouldn't touch it, neither will my kids (grown up), nor for their kids”

Why?

It’s a very safe, proven vaccine. Obviously a bit hit and miss in that we can’t know which strain will emerge each year but offers protection more often than not,