Is It Time To Remember Flu Shots Are Important Too?

Medical pros are starting to warn the meaning of “fully vaccinated” is changing as in a 2d “Covid booster” shot will be needed. Yet, why were thousands of influenza deaths each year met without the same dire fanfare? Is it because more people of middle age are dying & viruses are no longer just an “old folks” problem?

In one WSJ article we’re told, “US might not formally change the definition of fully vaccinated soon, but booster shots [have already] become a fact of life in more places as research suggests benefits against new [Omicron] variant.” Fair enough, even though early studies suggest Omicron is less deadly than Covid-19, but given that more people have died of Covid in 2021 than 2020 for an ugly total exceeding 800K. Yet, what’s worth re-examining is the almost forgotten INFLUENZA’s impact today and not just its global death rate in 1918 as a factoid in MSM articles on Covid-19. According to Prevention, CDC estimates 61K folks died in the 2017-18 flu season, 34K died in 2018-19 & 22K died in 2019-20 before Covid got unleashed.

Now, those influenza death estimates are obviously nowhere near the Covid ones. BUT the flu still accounts for a lot of deaths, if mostly among the elderly, and we hardly hear a peep out of anyone about getting this year’s flu shot. I got mine. Just wondering why there’s not more of a push to convince folks to get their’s too.

Davd Soul