Your Covid and Flu Season Crash Course

[_Jersey Girl]

Am currently going through this. Timely information for all of us regarding Covid, Flu, Pneumonia, immunizations and which to choose according to your health risks/age, various tests, etc. Stats included. This is just over an hour. Worth it.

And get your shots!

Health experts on importance of flu, pneumococcal vaccinations amid Covid-19 — 10/1/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vac-IJBwGRg

[_Res Ipsa]

Got my flu shot for this year and pneumonia last year. Don't relax on the COVID-19 basics: hand washing, surface sterilizing, social distancing, masks, avoid crowds. Here's a cautionary tale: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2 ... fd8eade725

[_Jersey Girl]

Got my heavy duty flu shot a week ago. I have 2 more shots to get this week. Then one requires a follow up injection. I've only been spacing them out because I'm alternating projects and "owie arms". :-)

As for the hygiene practices. Did them for 30 years straight in the classroom. I only got sick ONE year when I didn't get a flu shot. The only real addition for me is the mask which is the preschool equivalent of "don't breathe their air!"

I actually love the masks! I do my hair, skip the make up, grab a mask, and I'm out the door. What's not to like?

[_Gunnar]

Am currently going through this. Timely information for all of us regarding Covid, Flu, Pneumonia, immunizations and which to choose according to your health risks/age, various tests, etc. Stats included. This is just over an hour. Worth it.

And get your shots!

Health experts on importance of flu, pneumococcal vaccinations amid Covid-19 — 10/1/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vac-IJBwGRg

My family and I all got both our flu shots and pneumococcal booster shots more than a week ago, and, like you, the only years I ever got the flu were years in which I failed to get a flu shot, even though I know that getting a flu shot is not an absolute guarantee against getting the flu. There is always a usually small, but varying, non-zero probability of being exposed to a strain of flu not included in the cocktail of flu strains that the current year's vaccine protects us against.

[_Jersey Girl]

Shots done. My aching "owie" arms. Happy to have it done, though! A booster in the future.

[_Gunnar]

Shots done. My aching "owie" arms. Happy to have it done, though! A booster in the future.

I know what you mean. I got both the flu shot and the pneumococcal shots, one in each arm, and it took almost 3 days for the ache in both arms to entirely disappear. I wish they would hurry up and perfect and start marketing the PittCoVac vaccination technique for all shots.

It is not only less uncomfortable, but supposedly easier and cheaper to scale up to mass production, distribution and storage, because it doesn't require refrigeration. What's more its developers claim it more efficiently delivers the vaccine to precisely the part of the dermis that produces the most robust and most long lasting immune response, while minimizing the quantity of vaccine needed.

I have been periodically looking for evidence that clinical testing has been approved and begun, but so far, I haven't found anything on that or its results. Maybe pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to approve and market it because its potentially indefinite shelf life and low cost means less profits for them, and minimizes how much and how often they need to produce and sell it.

[_Jersey Girl]

Hi Gunnar,

I had to get 2 shots today that I got before I went overseas 2 years ago. I couldn't remember which one hurt so much. It's the pneumonia shot and I got it in my dominant arm. I can't raise my arm up very high and it's just killing me right now. I've got some extra strength Tylenol on board and a heat pack which always feels better to me than ice.

I'm heading to bed. I just hope I can sleep. I know it'll be gone in a few days, that this is protective and certainly far better than suffering with pneumonia. I think I tend to be pretty tough but this one turns me right into a child.

Night!

[_Gunnar]

Have a good sleep, Jersey Girl!

[_Jersey Girl]

Have a good sleep, Jersey Girl!

Oh thank you. That didn't happen! Woke up about every 3 hours. The pneumonia shot might be my friend but it doesn't play nice with me.

Owww!

[_Some Schmo]

I actually love the masks! I do my hair, skip the make up, grab a mask, and I'm out the door. What's not to like?

This is a great time for people with nice eyes but jacked up teeth and a crooked nose.