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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Safe, Schmafe. I'm unlikely to take the vaccine because my record of reaction (albeit not life threatening or anything close) to flu vaccines. Nobody's explained this to me but I suspect it's the way my immune system over-reacts to the vaccine.
To put some flesh on this, I have a mild anti-immune condition which seems to be fading but it's lasted some years. What worries me about the Covid vaccine is that it will provoke the anti-immune reaction in my lungs. That's life-threatening.
I stress that the above are layman's fears - the doctor hasn't said anything even if you could get past the barbed wire.
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Do you mean autoimmune?
Out of curiosity, have you had adverse reactions to other vaccines at all? I am wondering if you have had reactions to either the flu antigen or another component of the vaccine. If it's the flu antigen, then you would be golden as there is next to no similarity between coronavirus and influenza virus so you wouldn't expect to see a crossover reaction.
Of the other flu vaccine components, the biggest risk is egg protein but that's only present in the injected vaccine, not the live nasal one (Flumist and similar) None of the COVID vaccines I can see are grown in eggs.