Ask a doctor: How well do flu vaccines work? | 10.25.24 | Risk Less. Do More.

[Music] there are many reasons to get a flu vaccine each year especially if you're 65 or older in recent years more than half of people who went to the hospital for flu were 65 and older but younger people including children older than 6 months also need a flu vaccine every year many studies show show that people who get a flu vaccine are much less likely to wind up in the hospital from the flu there's no way a flu vaccine can give you the flu because the vaccines don't contain live viruses even if you've had the flu before and have some natural immunity new strains of flu can infect you that's why getting this season's vaccine is the best way to protect yourself from severe symptoms get vaccinated so you can risk less and do more risk less do more get this season's vaccines learn more at risk less do more paid for by the US Department of Health and Human Services