Are you sure , Peter?

On 5/10/09, Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That's a very bad assumption.  Just so happens, if you got your flu shot
> this year you are mostly protected from the current version of the swine flu
> (as far as we know at the moment).  The reason being, that the people doing
> the predicting guessed correctly on one of what was likely to be the most
> likely new variants to show up this year,  Not getting the flu shot each
> year greatly increases your odds of catching the flu.
> I'll be attending a lecture on Monday by one of the people who heads up the
> effort to make the predictions, part of the talk is about how they pick
> which flu variants are most likely to show up.  I can already tell you its
> an extremely set of sophisticated set of predictions that takes into account
> mutation rates (among other things).  Please don't put your health and the
> health of others around you at risk, get your flu shots every year!
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Tamar Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, your conclusion is right, Virginia, One reason I don't get flu shots
> > is they make them based on last year's flu. They can't really predict it.
> >
>
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> Peter Hunsberger
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