re: #521 kirkspencer

yay for anecdotal experience trumping statistical analysis.

In general flu shots reduce flu illnesses. There are spot exceptions. Not least causing this is the fact that the flu shot is based on a projection of the most likely variation, but most likely is neither all variations nor always the one that happens.

The past 3 years I did not get the flu and I didn’t get a flu shot. My wife gets a flu shot every year and she always gets the flu.