http://www.julieleung.com/archives/329 pictures and stories from the water's edge Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:08:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.julieleung.com/archives/329/comment-page-1#comment-209 Katherine Fedor Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:33:06 +0000 http://www.julieleung.com/wordpress/?p=329#comment-209 We never get flu shots. I think David did one year with folks from work as a group thing. David and I were sick this fall but the kids never got whatever we had. We wash our hands every time we come in from being out in public, as well as the other logical times. We never get flu shots. I think David did one year with folks from work as a group thing. David and I were sick this fall but the kids never got whatever we had. We wash our hands every time we come in from being out in public, as well as the other logical times.

]]> http://www.julieleung.com/archives/329/comment-page-1#comment-208 Gordon Weakliem Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:54:09 +0000 http://www.julieleung.com/wordpress/?p=329#comment-208 It's bad in Colorado, last I heard there were 6,000 cases and 8 people had died, all children. But OTOH, I know of several people who got very sick after getting vaccinated. This year shows just how futile a vaccination can be - the vaccination "might help", or it might just make you mildly sick and offer no protection. Couple that with an outright shortage of the vaccine. I had thought the hype was biggest in CO, since we had West Nile over the summer and now a bad flu season, but I guess it's all over. I do like that several of the local media outlets have put out articles saying basically that washing your hands frequently and avoiding contact with sick people are excellent protections from the flu. One other crazy thing I saw was when I went to visit my wife's grandfather in the hospital. The hospital had signs up asking people who had had the nasal vaccine in the last 3 weeks not to enter the patient rooms: apparently you're contagious for 3 weeks after getting the vaccine. That hardly seems like an effective strategy for preventing an epidemic. It’s bad in Colorado, last I heard there were 6,000 cases and 8 people had died, all children. But OTOH, I know of several people who got very sick after getting vaccinated. This year shows just how futile a vaccination can be – the vaccination “might help”, or it might just make you mildly sick and offer no protection. Couple that with an outright shortage of the vaccine. I had thought the hype was biggest in CO, since we had West Nile over the summer and now a bad flu season, but I guess it’s all over. I do like that several of the local media outlets have put out articles saying basically that washing your hands frequently and avoiding contact with sick people are excellent protections from the flu.
One other crazy thing I saw was when I went to visit my wife’s grandfather in the hospital. The hospital had signs up asking people who had had the nasal vaccine in the last 3 weeks not to enter the patient rooms: apparently you’re contagious for 3 weeks after getting the vaccine. That hardly seems like an effective strategy for preventing an epidemic.

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