The flu and Covid vaccines cannot be given at the same time, as they say from Health

2024-01-08 14:27:03

These days of collapse Emergencies Due to the different respiratory viruses, calls to get vaccinated are reproduced. And it is worth remembering, because many people do not know it, that they should not be vaccinated against flu and Covid at the same time. The Junta de Andalucía, for example, says yesthat flu vaccines, Covid vaccines and other vaccines can be administered at the same time, but this is NOT the case.

Being vaccinated against the flu does not “save” you from suffering from Covid and is also counterproductive. It turns out that the risk of complications from Covid is higher in those vaccinated against influenza than in those not vaccinated.

There is a possible link between influenza (flu) immunization and susceptibility to complications of Covid-19 infection due to an increase in immunity against SARS-CoV-2 in those who receive the aforementioned vaccine.

Of course, this is paradoxical because the normal thing would be to expect that a person immunized against the flu would obtain some type of protection against Covid. But there is a study that concludes:

We could not find a protective role of immunity conferred by flu vaccine on the outcomes of Covid-19 infectionsince the risk of complications from Covid-19 was higher in those vaccinated than in those not vaccinated.

These results correspond to the first wave of the pandemicwhere more complications occurred and mortality from the disease.

We hypothesized that the immunity resulting from previous influenza vaccination would enhance part of the immunity against SARS-CoV-2 and we set out to analyze whether patients with Covid-19 could have benefited from flu vaccination«explain these specialists.

Foto de Max Mishin.

To do the work, the population base was used that includes all Covid patients registered in primary care during the first wave of the pandemic (March 1, 2020-June 30, 2020) in Catalonia.

We compared people who were ever exposed to the flu vaccine before Covid-19 infection with those who They were never exposed (…) The main outcomes evaluated during follow-up were diagnosis of pneumonia, hospital admission and mortality,” they continue.

Results?: 19% of those vaccinated against influenza and 5.7% of those not vaccinated had at least one of the evaluated results.

«Those vaccinated against the flu before Covid-19 had higher risk to present at least one of the outcomes than the unvaccinated. When we excluded people admitted to long-term healthcare facilities, the results were similar,” the researchers argue.

And those are the results or conclusions, surely these professionals were surprised because they were not searching or suspecting what they found. It is clear then that for prevent covid it’s no use having vaccinated against flu and that is even worse.

Well, nothing, not only in Andalusia are they irresponsible with this matter. The Ministry of Health itself makes this dangerous mistake. Look at this documentdice:

«CAN I GET VACCINATED AGAINST FLU AND COVID-19 AT THE SAME TIME?

Yes. As long as there is availability of both vaccines can be administered together. The
Available evidence shows that no difference has been observed in the immune response of influenza and COVID-19 vaccines after their joint or separate administration.

Regarding the safety profile, no significant differences have been observed in terms of local and systemic adverse reactions. In addition, they can be administered simultaneously with other vaccines. If they are not administered on the same day, it will not be necessary to keep any time interval between vaccinations.

The circumstance occurs, as we have published in the post titled Lies and lobbying to impose flu and Covid-19 immunizationswhich has been carrying out a joint vaccination campaign for these two diseases for some time, flu and Covidas if they were related.

It seems to imply that immunization of one also “saves” the other. We see that no, that is a bulo.

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