Should I get a flu shot? Is it too late to get a flu shot?

A flu shot does not guarantee you will be flu-free. You should get it anyway.
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You should get a flu shot. It’s not too late to get a flu shot. You can get the flu in every month of the year. It’s never too late to get a flu shot.
Flu season—the time when our cases of the virus peak—lasts from around October through March, and it takes about two weeks for our bodies to develop all the antibodies we’ll reap from vaccination. So yes, in a perfect world, you’d have gotten your flu shot in October.
“But that doesn’t mean it’s too late,” Mary Beth Griggs wrote for Popular Science last February. “It’s not like all flu activity instantly ceases the second the clock strikes 12:01 on March 1.”
“The CDC recommends that everyone over six months old get the flu shot. Infants are exempt because their immune systems haven’t fully developed, but the rest of you have no excuse. Yeah, even you, lady with an egg allergy.”
The 2017-2018 flu season is proving to be pretty severe, and it’s not over. Get your flu shot.

Won’t the flu shot give me the flu?

No, the flu shot will not give you the flu. That is not how the flu shot works.
“The flu vaccine works by presenting antigens to your immune system,” Popular Science reported in November. “Antigens are proteins that allow your white blood cells to recognize foreign objects inside your body, like viruses. You build up a natural immunity to viruses once infected, because your body learns to recognize them as dangerous—so if they return with a vengence, your immune system is better prepared to fight back. Vaccines take advantage of this by providing very small amounts of antigens so that your white blood cells learn what the flu virus looks like.”
You should get a flu shot. It’s not too late to get a flu shot. You can get the flu in every month of the year. It’s never too late to get a flu shot.
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