{"id":10853,"date":"2025-11-19T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:42:04","slug":"what-doctors-say-about-one-of-the-biggest-flu-shot-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/11\/19\/what-doctors-say-about-one-of-the-biggest-flu-shot-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"What doctors say about one of the biggest flu shot myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/11\/18\/influenza-vaccine-flu-shot-myths\/\">Washington Post<\/a> The idea that you can get the flu from the flu vaccine is a long-standing fallacy. Here\u2019s what to tell someone who thinks it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"FUVUQGWEJRFMDJO63XIFPUKGUE\">The question<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Can the flu shot cause the flu?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"U7MNJOOAXVA7FLYHIOMJOFBR4Q\">The science<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You may be tempted to skip your flu shot this season because of scheduling issues, a fear of needles or another reason. But misconceptions and misinformation \u2014 including concerns that the vaccine actually<em>causes<\/em>&nbsp;the flu \u2014 shouldn\u2019t be one of them, experts said. It is one of the biggest myths you will hear during cold and flu season and one that is particularly vexing to doctors, who do everything they can to counter the concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"  TR   CbptWpj CU IU kPyAwA \"><!--   TR   CbptWpj CU IU kPyAwA  --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post The idea that you can get the flu from the flu vaccine is a long-standing fallacy. Here\u2019s what to tell someone who thinks it\u2019s true. The question Can the flu shot cause the flu? The science You may be tempted to skip your flu shot this season because of scheduling issues, a fear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10854,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}