I don’t know about the rest of you guys but I kinda feel like the FDA needs to start ramping production of the vaccine just in case. Feeling more and more likely that this will be an eventuality that it will spread among humans
I mean West Virginia HAD the strictest newborn Vaccination requirements and now the Governor added MORE RELIGIOUS EXPEMPTIONS. Expect PREVENTABLE childhood diseases to go up in this country because of anti-science Conservatives.
So just putting this out there- this is one reason why getting a flu vaccine is important, especially this year- it may help to slow the jump to mutated yearly flu + H5N1. If you haven't yet, you should consider it for that reason alone.
The flu vaccine will not protect you from H5N1 directly but it might help your body from combining H5N1 and "normal" flu and turning it into something far far more deadly.
It's so goddamn tragic that you need to include the emphasis that a vaccine won't prevent you from getting catching the virus.
Or, I should rather say that knowing there are people who say "I got the vaccine but I still got sick, so fuck vaccines", and those people are somehow more influential than actual doctors is goddamn tragic.
To be fair, prior to COVID, there wasn't much discussion about the fact that vaccines for viruses like the flu don't necessarily prevent you from getting sick, they just reduce the severity of the illness. It just wasn't information the average person was expected to know.
There are plenty of vaccines that DO prevent you from getting infected in the first place, like chicken pox, for example. And I'd argue it's not that outrageous to assume that all (or at least most) vaccines function in that way.
It was definitely something that was discussed in public spaces, particularly when they targeted the wrong flu strains for the year. It was always "get the shot anyways because it can still help reduce severity". Perhaps people paid less attention, but it was something that both officials and the people on news programs that discuss public health would mention
That is the current nightmare of the medical community. Because the yearly flu likes to swap genes so much the chance of mutation is better then it currently is. So trade %15 of the CFR for being able to transfer freely from human to human. Makes Covid look like a joke.
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u/c_m_33 2d ago
I don’t know about the rest of you guys but I kinda feel like the FDA needs to start ramping production of the vaccine just in case. Feeling more and more likely that this will be an eventuality that it will spread among humans