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How to respond to flu vaccine doubters

Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2019, 86 (12) 782-788; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19139
Sherif Beniameen Mossad
Staff, Department of Infectious Diseases, Section of Transplant Infectious Diseases, Respiratory Institute and Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic; Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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vol. 86 no. 12 782-788
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19139
PubMed 
31821135

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Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
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0891-1150
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1939-2869
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  • Published online December 1, 2019.

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  1. Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST⇑
  1. Staff, Department of Infectious Diseases, Section of Transplant Infectious Diseases, Respiratory Institute and Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic; Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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    : Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, Department of Infectious Diseases, G21, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195; mossads{at}ccf.org

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    • ‘IT DOESN’T WORK FOR MANY PEOPLE’
    • ‘IT TARGETS THE WRONG VIRUS’
    • ‘IT MAKES PEOPLE SICK’
    • ‘IT CAUSES GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME’
    • ‘I GOT THE FLU SHOT AND STILL GOT SICK’
    • ‘I’M ALLERGIC TO EGGS’
    • ‘I DON’T WANT TO PUT POISONOUS MERCURY IN MY BODY’
    • ‘I DON’T LIKE NEEDLES’
    • ‘I DON’T WANT TO TAKE ANYTHING THAT CAN MESS WITH MY OTHER MEDICATIONS’
    • ‘I’M AFRAID IT WILL TRIGGER AN IMMUNE RESPONSE THAT WILL MAKE MY ASTHMA WORSE’
    • ‘I HAD AN ORGAN TRANSPLANT, AND I’M AFRAID THE FLU SHOT WILL CAUSE ORGAN REJECTION’
    • ‘I’M PREGNANT, AND I DON’T WANT TO EXPOSE MY UNBORN BABY TO ANYTHING POTENTIALLY HARMFUL’
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