Will flu shots be any different this year and in the future?

Flu shots are already available for 2021. My health care provider sent me a reminder last week to get my flu shot.

I don’t understand your question: Are the resources going to be pouched for Covid vaccines? What do you mean by “pouched”?

It is too early to tell about annual COVID shots. I imagine boosters will be necessary since we are already getting boosters for those who had the two shot vaccines early in the year.

I’m curious how new flu vaccines will be developed using RNA technology like the Covid vaccines. I don’t know much about it – I could not even give a nutshell definition of “RNA vaccine” – but from the little I have read, it may lead to vaccines that cover more strains. Currently the yearly flu vaccine is aimed at the predicted predominant strains, and sometimes the aim is off.

Flu shots are unlikely to change except that they will be modified as they are each year to protect people from the variants which have surfaced since the last year jabs.

There is talk of trying to combine the Covid vaccinations with the Flu vaccine into one inoculation.

At the moment in the UK there is talk of giving both vaccines at the same time. When the flu jab is given a Covid vaccination booster will be given at the same time.

My Crystal Orb says:
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Bear in mind we are still in the midst of this pandemic. Not all is known yet.

@zenvelo – he means “poached”

@RocketGuy So what does he mean by “poaching” resources? That’s not something that happens.

He was worried that resources needed for the various flu vaccination activities would be pulled away to fight Covid, thus leaving a shortage of resources for flu.

I would contend that those would be different allocations, so there would be no problems.

I just read an article that talked about the flu season being disrupted and outbreaks might happen at different times of year. Could have just been the person needed something to write about, so might never pan out.

I was trying to look up if Asia is having a very low incidence of flu again this year.

The great thing about mRNA vaccines is you don’t have to wait to grow them. I don’t see why they wouldn’t want to create more for other viruses. If they did it for flu they could adjust it quicker if an unlikely strain began to surge. I don’t know if the flu virus is one that could be prevented by mRNA vaccines, i don’t know the mechanism well enough.

Why don’t they do a vaccine more specifically targeting Delta variant? Could they?