Usually I get my flu shot in October, but with all the warnings about an early flu season (and with the coronavirus pandemic raging) I decided to get my flu shot right now. Diane got her flu shot earlier this week. Are you planning to get a flu shot? When?
I get one every October but have been planning to get one earlier this year. The pharmacist who gives them wasn’t working today so I’ll try again this weekend.
Steve, when I first went to get my flu shot, my pharmacist said they just ran out. But, more flu shots might arrive in the afternoon. I told my pharmacist to give me a call if they came it. A couple hours later, the phone rang and it was my pharmacist. “We have 10 flu shots,” he said. “I’ll be there in 5 minutes,” I told him. And I was.
Of course!
So I never had a flu in the last 30 years.
But I have to wait – can only return to Germany for all my meds in October.
I hope it won’t be too late …
PS and not too much OT:
I’ve written before about the company Curevac, started by people from the university in my hometown Tübingen to develop new kinds of vaccines.
Five years ago Bill Gates came for a visit and was so impressed that he invested more than 100 million $!
They hope that by the end of the year the vaccine will be ready – it’s already being tested on volunteers like or Green Mayor.
And last week Elon Musk came to have a look – it seems he bought a German company 3 years ago that might deliver machines to produce the new vaccines. Don’t know however if he also had time to have a look at the beautiful city, the castle etc.
Wolf, I used to get the flu every year. I’m sure my students gave it to me. During flu season, my classrooms sounded like a tuberculosis wing of a hospital: coughing, sneezing, spitting, etc. Then, I started to get a flu shot every year and I never got the flu again.
I hadn’t heard about the flu season being early and had been planning to get mine in October as I usually do. My pharmacy usually has them available in early September but this year it was mid-August. If I get it too early could the protection end before the flu season does? Decisions, decisions.
Michael, there are also rumors of a flu shot shortage in the making.
If Nurse Cleavage there is administering them, I may get one a week.
For some reason, looking at her photo reminds me to get TWO shots — one for the flu and one for pneumonia.
Jerry, I highly recommend both shots. A friend of my delayed getting the pneumonia shot…and got pneumonia. He was not happy about his stay in the hospital…which could have been prevented.
Like you, I usually get my flu shot in October. I haven’t missed a flu shot in the 17 years I’ve worked in the school system. But this year, I’m getting mine early—in fact, I’m planning to go to Walgreen’s in about an hour. I got the pneumonia shot a few months back after having pneumonia last November (not an experience I want to repeat—the pneumonia not the shot). I also got the two-dose shingles shot last year because I had chicken pox as a child and my Dad’s experience with shingles (he says it felt as if boiling oil was being poured down his back) made me very wary about getting shingles.
Deb, Diane has a friend who has suffered from shingles THREE TIMES. When Diane asked her if she was going to get the shingles shot, she told Diane, “I’m afraid of needles.”
I just got back from getting my flu shot at Walgreens. I’m hoping that all of the measures we’re supposed to be taking to avoid covid will also help us avoid the flu, but I’m still glad I’ve got some protection from at least one of those viruses.
Deb, I’ve viewed a couple of interviews with Harvard University epidemiologists who warn that this Fall could bring a double whammy: people could get the flu and the coronavirus AT THE SAME TIME! Prospects for survival if that happens are not good.
Jackie spoke to the pharmacist at Costco (where we got the two shingles shots and the pneumonia vaccine) and he said better to wait until the end of September. Otherwise, it might not last the entire flu season. There has been no reported flu outbreaks anywhere that I’ve heard of yet, and that is usually another indicator that it is time to get one. But I can understand Deb’s reasoning.
Jeff, it takes about two weeks for the flu shot to take hold. I figured that if there’s a flu outbreak later this month, supplies might be tight.
I heard to wait until late Sept. And based on last year’s experience, when I got it early and got the flu in February, I am going to try and wait a few weeks.
Patti, I’m hoping Social Distancing and mask wearing will help us all stay flu and coronavirus free in the months ahead.
Overheard at the Grocery, next to The Little Clinic:
“You know those vaccines are made by Jews, so we don’t really know what’s in ’em!”
Dan, the preacher in Maine who spread coronavirus at a wedding told his parishioners: “Don’t get the coronavirus vaccine! It’s made from dead babies!”
Well, he’s not wrong if by “dead babies” he means “dead baby chickens” since I believe most vaccines are grown in eggs!
You know, the more I see and hear the utterly insane response of some people to covid (and to vaccines in general), the more I understand how hundreds of people willingly drank cyanide-laced kool-aid in Jonestown.
Deb, you’re right. Some gullible people believe anything they’re told by preachers, politicians, and pillow salesmen!
We got ours about a week ago. We needed to make an appointment, at Walgreens, and were first in line at 9am.
Rick, Diane got her flu shot at Walgreens, I got mine at Rite-Aid.
Thanks for timely reminder. Pharmacist said they were down to their last hi-dose, and I got it.
Art, congratulations! Shortages of the hi-dose for Senior Citizens might be happening soon.
No word as yet from the provincial government or my pharmacist as to when flu shots will be available. Up until a couple of years ago, there used to be locations set up by the government where you could go for a couple of weeks. Always long lineups. Now you go to a pharmacy and can usually get in quickly even without an appointment. My pharmacy always puts a phone message on its anwering system telling people when the shots are available. I plan to go as soon as I hear.
Kent, the College I used to teach at provided free flu shots to students. Most students never took advantage of that offer.