On his way to work, Dan Weiss made a preventative stop at the former Robert Usher Collegiate to get his H1N1 shot on Tuesday — the first day immunizations were available to the general public in Regina.
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Regina’s general public receives H1N1 shots (Regina Leader-Post)
This week saw media reports of studies suggesting that getting the seasonal flu shot makes people more susceptible to H1N1 – unpublished data that influenced Ontario’s decision to delay its seasonal flu shots . … But for Weiss, that’s the whole nature of medicine, weighing risks against benefits . “We live in an environment in which people would like to have a 100 per cent guarantee that everything is safe and good,” he said. “But we can’t do that. …
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