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Arizona: Don't allow study to influence flu-shot decision

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Arizona: Don't allow study to influence flu-shot decision




Stephanie Innes Arizona Daily Star Arizona Daily Star | <!-- AP Updated -->Posted: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:00 am



A new study that says flu shots are 59 percent effective should not be a reason for Arizonans to break their "social contract" to get vaccinated, a top state health official said Wednesday.

"There is probably not a person in my job in the other states who was happy to open the papers and see the study and the headline," Arizona Department of Health Services Director Will Humble said of reading media reports about the study, which was published online Tuesday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases...

"Fifty-nine percent is better than zero. It is still conferring some protection," Ernst said.

Indeed, state health officials stress that no one should interpret the study as a reason to skip a flu shot this season.

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