• cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I think I will. Out of curiosity, does it actually help with transmission or is it more to make sure you don’t need to be ER or ICU’d?

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The latter. Much like COVID you can still very much get it, but it’ll not hospitalize and kill you. It’s really bad this season virus wise.

    • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.gg
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      1 year ago

      It can 100% help with transmission. It won’t stop it outright, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t help.

      I can’t find reference to it, but in the past I recall seeing communities that vaccinated the majority of the kids in their schools against the flu seeing massively reduced cases.

      It makes sense as well, vaccines shorten severity and duration … it makes sense that the viral load and thus the ability for the virus to spread is greatly reduced.