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What defines effectiveness here?
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Flu vaccine effectiveness by year, from CDC:
CougarAndMerlin
10/1/18 7:47pm
What did they put in the shot in 04-05? Mountain Dew?
777
10/1/18 7:50pm
Autism virus.
Virginia Ute
10/1/18 7:52pm
Essential oils
Slim
10/1/18 7:54pm
You make that sound like a bad thing
TNT
10/1/18 8:32pm
What defines effectiveness here?
SuperTank
10/1/18 7:59pm
RE: What defines effectiveness here?
TO11
10/1/18 8:03pm
Weird. I’ve had the flu once in the past 20 years, and have only had the flu vaccine a couple times.
SuperTank
10/1/18 8:07pm
RE: Weird. I’ve had the flu once in the past 20 years, and have only had
TO11
10/1/18 8:20pm
I think he is saying that how they define effectiveness is questionable.
777
10/1/18 8:33pm
Right. I’m just wondering how they define it.
SuperTank
10/1/18 9:00pm
I don't really understand it either. The real flu is rare, people maybe get it
777
10/1/18 9:17pm
Vaccine efficacy is the percentage reduction of disease in a vaccinated group of people compared to an unvaccinated
Virginia Ute
10/1/18 9:20pm
Thank you. Now it makes sense.
SuperTank
10/1/18 9:58pm
I’m not sure herd immunity applies to the flu since it changes every year and not a significant amount of the populace
Virginia Ute
10/1/18 10:06pm
So I've heard that they don't do studies since they think it would be unethical
777
10/2/18 12:00am
From what I understand they are observational studies at many sites across the US using patients with PCR test positive
Virginia Ute
10/2/18 12:26am
I have to get it every year since I work in the hospital...I laugh b/c of this
gaspasscoug
10/1/18 10:34pm
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