The cold and flu season runs from October to February and
generally peaks January. Roughly 20% of Americans can catch a virus which can
cause severe health issues. Despite this, there are some common beliefs about
the cold and flu which Health Briefs TV will try to dispel.
The flu shot does not make us sick with the flu. The vaccine
is made with dead viral particles so it can’t infect us. The mist which kids
use utilizes a crippled version of the virus which cannot make kids sick. It
takes two weeks for our bodies for form antibodies to the vaccine to fully
protect us.
Young and healthy people do not need the flu shot. While it
is true that young, healthy people are less vulnerable than the very young and
old, everyone should get the flu shot. At the very least, it prevents the receiver
from passing the virus to others. And it prevents the transmission of the virus
from infecting us.
Other myths that Health Briefs TV has heard about the flu
which are not true:
The shot didn’t work if someone gets the flu. If this is the
case, a variant strain of the flu that was not in the shot is at work. Antibiotics
can cure the flu which is not true as antibiotics do not work on viruses. What
other myths have our readers heard?
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