This flu has already
killed healthy young men in my area. I'm getting it.
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they will also hold back and keep in reserve a batch to treat real genuine cases with, so it's not like this is going to run out anytime soon.
Vaccines are not a treatment! Only a prevention. By the time you get it, it's too late for a vaccine to work! There are a
few actual antiviral drugs out there now, like tamaflu, but they are not vaccines.
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I read somewhere some of these vaccines are actually cultured viruses themselves so can cause different side effects in different people.
Derived from cultured viruses.
Derived from --
not actual "live" viruses. The point of a vaccine is to present the right immune triggers to your body without actually infecting you. To this end they take the virus and damage it, make it uninfectious.
I'd also add that in considering whether to get the vaccine or not, you should not only consider the danger to yourself of the infection and the (smaller) risks of the vaccine, but the danger you'd represent to others if you got infected. Higher vaccination rates mean much smaller transmission rates, too.