When Should You Get the New COVID-19 Booster and the Flu Shot? Now Is the Right Time For Both

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The Conversation

Sep 22, 2022 When COVID-19 and the flu co-infect, it’s ‘flurona.’ But such cases are rare, and there are effe ...

Was a Healthy Nine-Year-Old Girl Paralyzed by a Flu Shot?

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Alex Kasprak

Oct 26, 2018 The story of a heartbreaking illness following a routine flu shot has been used to scare people ...

Did the Flu Shot Cause This Year’s Flu Epidemic?

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Alex Kasprak

Feb 14, 2018 This claim is based on the incorrect interpretation of single quote from one nurse in Wisconsin ...

Did a Texas Teacher Named Heather Holland Die Because She Couldn't Afford Flu Medicine?

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David Emery

Feb 12, 2018 The 38-year-old's death from complications of influenza became an internet cause célèbre after i ...

Did a CDC Doctor Say the Flu Shot Is Causing a Deadly Outbreak?

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Bethania Palma

Jan 17, 2018 A disreputable web site used an unsourced and fabricated quote to link deaths from the flu epide ...

Less Effective Flu Shots 'Prove' You Shouldn't Get Them at All?

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Alex Kasprak

Jan 15, 2018 Dubious websites are attempting to use a season in which the influenza vaccine is less effective ...

Did a Mother Sue a Hospital Because Her Son Turned Gay from Flu Shot?

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Kim LaCapria

Oct 4, 2016 “My son was perfectly normal before the shot,” she told reporters.

Spin-Fluenza

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Kim LaCapria

Oct 19, 2015 No, the CDC did not issue a warning advising folks to avoid this year's flu shot.