Did you get a flu shot?

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Registered: 09-22-1999
Did you get a flu shot?
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Thu, 10-21-2004 - 11:41pm

Did you get a flu shot?



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Registered: 02-19-2004
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 11:12am
I'm in the high risk group, but waiting to see if there is going to be any left by the time I get over my cold. I'm in the lower end of the high risk category, so I may skip it and take my chances. They say there might not be enough for everyone high risk, and I know there are lots that are worse off than me.

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 11:49am
My work offers them free - I had mine last week. I've had the flu before, and God, I don't ever want to be that sick again!


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Registered: 02-19-2004
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 12:10pm
Just out of curiosity, where they following the CDC guidelines? Do you work in an office, or healthcare facility? Most offices I know canceled flu shot drives that were scheduled after the announcement of the shortage.

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Registered: 04-07-2003
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 12:31pm

I live in Canada - all that stuff doesn't apply.

We have travelling clinics (a nurse and a couple of crates) that go around to different places that request them. My workplace does it every year.



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Registered: 02-19-2004
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 1:25pm
Got it. I was going to get one through work, as I did last year, until the shortage.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-26-1999
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 7:39pm
I got one because my work offered them for free. I also live in Canada where thankfully we don't have a shortage. I find it so ironic that a country as wealthy and powerful as the USA can't manage to provide enough of a basic vaccine to protect its citizens. It makes me wonder what people should really be scared of in this world. Don't get me wrong, I like all you guys lots, it's just a comment on politics really.


Edited 10/22/2004 7:42 pm ET ET by rebeccalouise
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Registered: 01-30-1999
Fri, 10-22-2004 - 10:04pm
I got one b/c I'm a nurse and gotta have people to take care of the people that do get sick. :) The last thing you'd want is not to have medical people available to help. But the flu shot is not 100%, it has 3 strains that they think may be around but they have been wrong in the past so we just cross our fingers that they "picked" correctly.


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