Are Flu Shot Side Effects Actually Worse This Year? We Asked Three Experts.

“People are more likely to be looking for, or perceiving side effects that they wouldn’t have bothered to [notice] before,” one expert told us.

Nasia Safdar, the medical director for infection prevention at the University of Wisconsin Hospital:

It really shouldn’t. Quadrivalent vaccines have been available and most of us have been getting those for years. There is a high dose flu vaccine that is recommended for people who are older, and the arm tenderness might be a little bit more and it takes a little bit longer to recover.The entire influenza vaccine manufacturing industry has been moving toward quadrivalent vaccines for a decade. And this year, everybody is there in all their formulations.

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