Three Flu Shots Needed This Fall?

pk · 08-06-2009, 11:47 PM

Ouch! Early flu shot season comes with 3 jabs

Get ready to roll up your sleeve three times for flu shots this fall. That's right, three times. This year's flu season is shaping up to be a very different one. Most people will need one shot for the regular seasonal flu and probably two others to protect against the new swine flu.
Experts suggest you get that first shot as early as this month — if you can find it.

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pk · 08-06-2009, 11:48 PM

Ouch..it's not only going to hurt in the arm but in the pocket book too.

Latina · 08-07-2009, 11:56 AM

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But it's not a matter of just giving both to whoever comes in. Supplies are expected to be limited, so the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has two different lists for who should be first to get the seasonal flu shot and who should be first to get the swine flu shot.

For the regular flu vaccine, elderly people, health care workers and pregnant women are among the priority groups. For the swine flu vaccine, health care workers and pregnant women are on the list but not older people, who seem to have some immunity to swine flu.

That's just messed up IMO

Make more! With as much as we all pay in taxes and as much as our new & so-called improved government has promised with healthcare being priority etc... why cant we make more? why is it limited?? why do they get to choose if a pregnant woman down the street is more important than my sick elderly parents or my children?? Who the hell are they to make that call?

I hate the government these days more than ever & this kind of crap doesn't help them to look any better in anyones eyes.

Blue Baboon · 08-07-2009, 11:59 AM

I'll take my 3 shots in the form of Southern Comfort, Vodka and Bacardi. LOL

Latina · 08-07-2009, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by pk

Ouch..it's not only going to hurt in the arm but in the pocket book too.

So if you are poor or have a big family to pay for & can not afford it you are not getting the shot & are as good as dead? ugh.

It's a medicine to save all our lives, why are we paying anything more than what it will cost to make the drug,?? split between everyone in the USA we should not be paying hardly anything... better yet, take it from the multi trillions of dollars stimulus that WE will be paying back for the rest of our lives anyway.

do i sound bitter?? lol

wow i need a chill pill

Latina · 08-07-2009, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

I'll take my 3 shots in the form of Southern Comfort, Vodka and Bacardi. LOL

LOL make mine 3 shots of Takillya w/ lime & salt and i'm right there with ya

pk · 08-07-2009, 08:30 PM

Makes me wonder how this will work with insurances. Usually we go to the Nurses Asso. and pay 30.00 for a flu shot. I now find out that our insurance will pay for the shot. But I think it pays for one flu shot per person if I read it correctly. After all, we always needed just one flu shot per year. Then do we pay for the rest? I also wonder what the price will actually be, I can't seem to find that out anywhere yet.