There is trivalent and quadrivalent vaccine. Most people get trivalent vaccine. This year it’s primarily protecting against a California virus that looks a lot like H1N1, the truly nasty stuff, and a couple of others that aren’t much fun either. The one-in-four it’s not protecting against is a piffly type B which amounts to a cough and runny nose, the sort you can kind of shrug off. They reserve the quadrivalent vaccine, I think, for people who are really healthwise compromised.<\/p>\n
And it takes 2 weeks to get any kind of immunity out of your shot, and the shot is valid about 4 months for an older person: youngers may go longer.<\/p>\n
The upshot of it all is that I was exposed to a type B (Jane’s brother had a cough and cold when we visited) before this vaccine had any kind of chance, and probably it’s a type B that wasn’t covered by the shot anyway. Incubation for the flu being 1-4 days, I can figure that’s probably what I got; and Jane, who got her shot a week before me, is having some symptoms too—not as bad, however.<\/p>\n
There’s a lot of sincerely bad info floating around on the flu shots: I do recommend them. I feel bad enough with this slips-through-the-cracks type piffle of a flu. An H1N1 relative is no joke. If you haven’t gotten your flu shot, go for it. Even if you still get this sort, not getting the major-nasty sort is a biggie. Especially if you go around people who are unable to stand bad flu, get the shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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