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The Retirement Newsletter: Time to get your COVID-19 and flu vaccinations
Welcome
Welcome to issue 180 (30), and this week, it is my annual reminder about getting your winter flu and COVID-19 jabs.
Health
I am not a medical doctor. I hold a PhD in Biochemistry. During my 30+ year career as a biochemist, I taught undergraduates about proteins, supervised PhD students, ran undergraduate labs, and researched and published scientific papers. So, I know a bit about science and research.
What I am writing here, just as I have done in previous years, is not a scientific paper; if it were, it would be full of references and written in ‘science style’. What I am writing is an opinion piece, and my opinion is underpinned by the literature (which I am not going to cite) and my years of working as a biochemist and university lecturer.
Why get a flu vaccine?
I would say, why not?
The flu is an interesting one. It is a seasonal infection that we can see coming. The Northern Hemisphere watches the new flu appear during the winter in the Southern Hemisphere and prepares its stocks of vaccines accordingly against the new flu.
