by Tyler Lallathin | Oct 11, 2010 | News Slider
Students have mixed opinions on whether to get the flu shot when Lipscomb opens its clinic Tuesday in the Bennett Campus Center The university is urging students and faculty to get the shot, by posting the following message on its website: “This year, the CDC is recommending that everyone 6 months and older get flu shots. Protection against the H1N1 virus will be included in this year’s seasonal vaccines.” The combination seasonal flu and swine flu in vaccination doesn’t bother Leanne Wright, a junior nursing major from Cincinnati, Ohio. “I’ll get a flu shot. I’ll get the piggy shot. Put it all in me,” Wright said. “Flu shots work, but not for all people.” Sarah Bailey, a junior marketing major from Philadelphia, Pa., said she agrees with the school’s stance on the shots. But not everyone is so eager. “I don’t feel that they are necessary,” said Joseph Cardiasmenos, a senior psychology major from Cincinnati, Ohio. “Since I’m young, my immune system can fight off [the flu] on its own.” Jamie Good, a junior exercise major from Cincinnati said she probably won’t get the shot. “I got one last year and I still got the flu,” Good said. Physicians have said that while the flu shot won’t prevent a person from getting ill, it will lessen the wallop of the ailment. Some students said that the shot actually can make a person ill. This, according to a statement posted on the web site of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, is the No. 1 misconception about the vaccinations: “The influenza viruses contained in a flu shot are inactivated (killed), which...
