<story><title>Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdo72</author><text>I get flu vaccines yearly, and every time I still get sick. My kids got the vaccine this year, and all of them got sick because of the flu, 3 times. I really don&amp;#x27;t know if the flu vaccine does anything, but it definitely gives me lots of doubts.&lt;p&gt;Then we had a family member who got very sick a month or two ago because of the flu, he was sent to ER, ICU, and eventually didn&amp;#x27;t make it. That sent a shock wave to our family. He planned to get the flu vaccine a bit later but got sick right before.&lt;p&gt;Please get vaccinated, if it doesn&amp;#x27;t work well, it may give us the second chance to survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>grey413</author><text>Something that following the progress of COVID vaccines really taught me is that vaccines have an important role in reducing the &lt;i&gt;severity&lt;/i&gt; of a disease in addition to stopping them outright. I&amp;#x27;d much rather get a mild flu than a moderate flu, let alone a severe one.&lt;p&gt;This seems to be particularly true for fast-acting viral respiratory diseases. Our immune systems seem to have soft biological limits on how well they can prevent them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps</title><url>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sdo72</author><text>I get flu vaccines yearly, and every time I still get sick. My kids got the vaccine this year, and all of them got sick because of the flu, 3 times. I really don&amp;#x27;t know if the flu vaccine does anything, but it definitely gives me lots of doubts.&lt;p&gt;Then we had a family member who got very sick a month or two ago because of the flu, he was sent to ER, ICU, and eventually didn&amp;#x27;t make it. That sent a shock wave to our family. He planned to get the flu vaccine a bit later but got sick right before.&lt;p&gt;Please get vaccinated, if it doesn&amp;#x27;t work well, it may give us the second chance to survive.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scotty79</author><text>I think reduction of chance of getting infected that you can get from flu vaccine is very modest and in any single case can be easily drowned in the noise caused by all other factors. But it&amp;#x27;s visible in epidemiological data.</text></comment>