Myth Dispelled

by Adam Possner, MD

The flu vaccine cannot give you the flu, I tell him. It’s dead virus, there’s nothing alive about it. It can’t make you sick. That’s a myth. But if we bury it in the grassy knoll of your shoulder, an inch under the stratum corneum, as sanctioned by your signature in a white-coated ceremony presided over by my medical assistant and then mark the grave with a temporary non-stick headstone, the trivalent spirit of that vaccine has a 70 to 90 percent chance of warding off the Evil One, and that’s the God’s honest truth.

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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), December 5, 2012, Vol. 308 (21):2178.