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originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: JAGStorm
Really amazing marketing, you have to take your hats off to them the only problem is the people.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Flu shots may protect against severe COVID complications!
Poor, poor, Teikiatsu ... the man has been in vaccines as a career for over 20 years, and these days he's beginning to feel like he's fallen into idiocracy and cannot climb out.
A new study reveals the annual influenza vaccine may provide significant protection against some of the most serious complications from a coronavirus infection.
Researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine say the largest study of its kind to date has discovered that the basic flu shot lowers the risk of stroke, sepsis, and blood clots in patients with COVID-19. Moreover, COVID patients who have been vaccinated against the flu are also less likely to need hospitalization or enter the intensive care unit.
Is it just me, or is there a massive point flying right over the writer's head here? The flu disappeared and now we're having this "study" that shows that the flu shot (another vaccine against the flu - a supposedly disappeared disease) prevents severe illness from a disease it shouldn't do a damn thing for?
Vaccines are specific, not prophylactics!
So did it occur to no one that perhaps the severe illness being prevented was severe flu, not COVID, especially since we also know the new tests will differentiate between COVID and influenza?
The Miami team says it’s unclear what exactly makes a flu shot so protective for COVID patients. However, the team theorizes that the influenza vaccine boosts the body’s innate immune system — strengthening the defenses that protect against all forms of illness.
Hmmm ... did they discover whether or not the patients were sick from COVID or flu first?
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: ketsuko
Or this was pushed by flu vaccine makers as their yearly cash cow has gone down.
Flu vaccination does not reduce hospitalizations, death in older adults
www.healio.com...
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: ketsuko
COVID-19 doesn't cure the flu, and the flu doesn't cure COVID-19. You can have both of them at the same time.
The flu didn't go away, ether.
Also, if you are in a weakened state from one virus, and catch another, you end up in an even weaker state. It's fairly obvious.
I understand this to mean that today and previously, there has been NO WAY to verify if one has the covid or if one has the flu.
A single test that diagnoses current infection with one or more of these viruses allows public health laboratories to continue influenza surveillance while they are also testing for SARS-CoV-2. Information about both viruses will help public health officials control the spread of influenza and COVID-19 in the community and may help health care providers identify co-infections and provide more targeted treatment for influenza and COVID-19. Obtaining this information in a single test, rather than having to run separate SARS-CoV-2 tests and influenza tests, will also allow laboratories to conserve important testing materials that are in short supply and process up to three times as many tests as they can with the CDC 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel and separate influenza diagnostic tests.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: CupcakeKarma
I understand this to mean that today and previously, there has been NO WAY to verify if one has the covid or if one has the flu.
You misunderstand. A single test which can determine flu and/or COVID has been developed. It will replace the single purpose COVID (and flu) tests.