Lay press reports will cause some elderly patients to skip their flu shot this year

November 2005

Lay press reports will cause some elderly patients to skip their flu shot this year.

The reports say that influenza vaccination works modestly at best in the elderly. That's true...partially.

The immune system doesn't react as vigorously to antigens in the elderly, so the vaccine doesn't produce as much protection.

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