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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NicoleC1971" data-source="post: 2313069" data-attributes="member: 365308">this is anecdotal but illustrates a problem with the flu jab for type 1s at least.   An elderly chap in my walking group had his flu jab then I am guessing his immune system kicked in and his insulin requirements went through the roof for 3 days or so!I am more likely to take a flu jab than a Covid vaccination but then I've never had a bad upper respiratory infection other than the 1 time I had a flu jab and certainly the thought of taking up a hospital bed because I hadn't had the jab makes me feel guilty.However flu jabs do not work for every variety of flu and it should be recognised that the vaccination can only work if your immune system is otherwise healthy and can therefore create a reaction.   For the very elderly they may succumb because at some point their immune systems have given up (typically why deaths rise after the first round of Winter bugs).   As for Covid I am nervous about a vaccine that has been through an expedited licensing process for which the manufacturers seem to have been indemmnifed against unforseen side effects (consultation for this proposed legislation closed last week).Not an anti vaxxer btw (kids all jabbed up to the hilt) but don't feel that for me Corona virus vaccination is worth the risk.</blockquote>

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