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It'd be silly, selfish not to get flu shot

A child at the NUMC Pediatric Practice in

Photo credit: Jim Staubitser | A child at the NUMC Pediatric Practice in East Meadow gets a flu vaccine. (Jan. 11, 2013)

Sorry if you have the flu.

I got slammed a few New Year's Eves ago. Chills. Fever. A horrible aching feeling. The rot lingered into the second week of January. I thought I would die. Then, I wished I would die. Never once have I joked about the flu since then.

All 50 states are reporting influenza activity. Across America, some drugstores report they're running low on the flu vaccine...

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