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7. More from the article on some issues with elders:
Thu Nov 16, 2023, 08:25 AM
Nov 2023

.. An October analysis from the Food and Drug Administration, which has not been peer-reviewed, also identified a slightly elevated risk of stroke among people ages 85 and up who had received a high-dose flu shot at the same time as a bivalent Covid vaccine.

Dr. Scott Roberts, an infectious disease specialist at Yale Medicine, said it's possible that "we're starting to see the immune system revved up so much that we're seeing these inflammatory conditions like stroke in this select age group."

But Barron noted that many older people have underlying health conditions that independently increase their risk of stroke, and several other studies have not identified the same safety concern with co-administering Covid and flu shots...

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