Y’all will recall (if you live here in the U.S.) all the hubbub about the flu vaccine shortage that happened late last year.
I heard that they eventually scrounged up enough vaccine that they eased some of the restrictions on who should get a flu shot (originally it was just the very elderly, the very young, and those in poor health). I didn’t realize, however, just how much they had now been eased.
Thursday night I was in a local health food store to get some nutritional supplements and, as I was checking out, I noticed a young lady manning a flu shot table. Surprised to see such a table in a health food store, as short as they said they had been on the vaccine, I approached her and asked what restrictions were now in place: Was it still heavily restricted or could just anybody get a flu shot now?
She said they could, unless they had a severe egg allergy (flu shots are cultured in eggs), had had a bad reaction to a previous flu shot, or were currently feverish.
So yesterday I got me a flu shot. Woo-hoo!
If you would like to get one, you might want to get one now.
They’re expecting flu season to really heat up in about five weeks, and it takes two to three weeks for the immunity to build up in your body after you get the shot.
Don’t forget your pneumonia shot if you haven’t had one in the last five years.
