Flu shots for the 2011-12 flu season are now available through San Joaquin County Public Health Services and Lodi Memorial Hospital. San Joaquin County Public Health Officer Dr. Karen Furst said the vaccine is safe, effective and readily available.
"Now is a good time to get the vaccine because it takes two to four weeks to build up immunity," she said in a press release.
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Joanne Bobin posted at 2:23 pm on Tue, Oct 11, 2011.
I've never had a reaction to a flu shot, nor have I had a bad case of the flu for over a decade. Everyone's different.
My husband went to Safeway and took the flu shot AND the pneumonia shot the week before last and he ended up with a 104 degree temp the next day and had a trip to the Urgent Care.
The doc said it was probably a coincidence and he had probably already been infected with something. But he also warned him not to take stuff he didn't need (as if he would listen). The pneumonia shot is only once every ten years and he had taken one last year or the year before!
Watch out for these supermarket purveyors of vaccines - they obviously didn't ask him if he had one recently!
Kevin Paglia posted at 7:36 am on Tue, Oct 11, 2011.
A few years back I was convinced by a friend that we should be doing the flu shots, especially with kids in school, so we did for three years. Guess what, those three years were the worst flus our house had ever seen. In fact in that last 20 years those three years were the ONLY year I ever had the flu. They were the only time my oldest had ever missed school because of the flu as well.
My mom and dad both get the flu shots every year since they turned 55. More than half the time they still get the flu where they can barely get out of bed.
So to get to the point, I think for me and mine we will be skipping the flu shots. We don't need to be that sick again.