Grateful for my flu shot....

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU (yes I am shouting with all caps). Wonderful post.

"More telling, for people who reported both flu symptoms and vaccination status, of those who got the flu, three out of four were not vaccinated, while a quarter had gotten their flu shots.

Brownstein cautioned that can’t be used as a true measure of this season’s vaccine efficacy because of variables in reporting. But the CDC says that in the 2010-2011 flu season, vaccine effectiveness was about 60 percent for all age groups combined."

So, to recap, in this group, a lot of people who had an "immunization" got sick anyway, and overall last year the chances of your getting the flu if you had the "shot" was not that far from "coin flip." Oh--kay.

I believe your facts. So is the CDC just plain wrong and no one should needs a flu shot? Confused!

Here is a weekly report from the CDC showing that the confirmed cases of influenza is actually down for the latest week reporting
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2012-2013/images/image521.gif

Sometimes I believe that people confuse influenza like illness ( ILI, or the flu) with true influenza?
Yes more people are c/oing of more influenza like illnesses but that does not mean influenza. Don't I interprete that correctly?
Ili is defined by CDC as a fever of 100F orally associated with a sore throat or cough. To say Ili is the same as influenza is confusing for me?

Whatever presentation makes it "look" the way the reporter/PTB want it to.