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For years, the CDC has been promoting the notion that flu shots are between 70 and 90 percent effective in preventing influenza 16 and everybody needs to get vaccinated because type A and type B influenza causes more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths in the U.S. every year.
Maragakis says scientists developing the flu vaccine usually choose three or four strains of influenza to protect against. They make the call on which strains to prevent based on the strains circulating in the Southern Hemisphere. If I get a flu shot, can I still get the flu? Yes. The flu shot is not 100% effective, notes Maragakis.