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Low turnout for flu shots

Hope they do this again. I'd go.

The reporter quoted the health official as saying:

"But just because a novel virus has arrived doesn't mean the seasonal ones have gone away... They're always circulating and mutating and always with us."

At the moment, the old seasonal strains really have gone away -- mostly. And in the last three pandemics, the new pandemic virus "crowded out" the seasonal Influenza A.

No one knows whether pandemic flu H1N1 (2009) will completely crowd out the old seasonal influenza A strains, seasonal H1N1 and seasonal H3N2. But in the southern hemisphere, the percentage of the old seasonal strains decreased steadily over their current flu season.

Why not decide to get your seasonal flu shot AFTER you know whether the old seasonal strains will still be around? You wouldn't get the new swine flu shot if swine flu suddenly went away, would you?