Doctors are recommending vaccines for the flu, the newest strain of COVID-19, and the RSV shot. However, medical experts are worried about vaccine fatigue.
For most of the millions of people who get the flu each year in the U.S., the virus brings a few days of fever, body aches, and weakness before it goes away. Allison Miller knows these risks all too well.
“I had missed the memo that flu vaccines were for everyone, and being 33 at the time and otherwise healthy, it didn’t even register as something I should consider doing.”“A known complication of that form of life support is amputation,” she told Fox News Digital. “Some patients lose blood circulation, and that’s what happened to me.”Doctors had to amputate Miller’s left leg above the knee — all while she was still in a medically induced coma.
“In my case, it was very quick — it was within 24 to 48 hours that it went from just coming on, to me being in the hot seat.”Now, Miller is looking to spread awareness of the importance of getting the flu vaccine, which she did not get that year., and being 33 at the time and otherwise healthy, it didn’t even register as something I should consider doing,” she said.
Dr. Gregg Sylvester, chief health officer at CSL Seqirus, a New Jersey biopharmaceutical company, noted that while Miller’s experience is not typical of most women in her age range, “it probably occurs more often than we know.”
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