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by dgfitz 1624 days ago
Isn’t the flu vaccine a bit of a crap shoot though? There’s I believe 7 variants of the flu, and the one vaccine we get every year is a bit of a educated guess [1] such that the flu vaccine may not actually do anything helpful at all. I don’t think this is a strong argument.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm