I thought this article was worth posting and up for debate. Are you getting
the flu-shot or Not?

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Flu shots are already considered an important factor in combating the
coronavirus pandemic, since widespread inoculations will hopefully help prevent
medical facilities from becoming overwhelmed by dual diseases. But new research
suggests flu shots may also play some role in preventing COVID-19 infections in
the first place, The Scientific American reports.A study, which has not yet
been peer-reviewed, found that workers at Radboud University Medical Center in
the Netherlands who received a flu shot during the 2019-20 season were 39
percent less likely than their colleagues to test positive for the coronavirus
as of June 1, 2020. Non-vaccinated employees contracted the virus at a 2.23
percent rate, compared to only 1.33 percent of those who were vaccinated.The
preliminary research would certainly require further clinical trials - though
the author of the study noted it would be unethical to compel a control group
of subjects to be denied a flu shot - and there could be several reasons why
the vaccinated group staved off infection more easily, including the
possibility that they are generally more health conscious and took more
COVID-19 precautions.Still, there have been other studies that hint at a
possible link between flu shots (and other vaccines, for that matter) and lower
COVID-19 risk. Additionally, the Radboud research team conducted a laboratory
experiment in which they took blood cells from healthy individuals, purified
them, and exposed some of them to a flu vaccine. After allowing the cells to
grow for a few days, the researchers exposed them to the coronavirus. A day
later they found that the vaccinated cells produced more of several kinds of
immune molecules that fight off pathogens than those that were initially left
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