The flu shot that they’re giving out is one of the bivalent shots, I think.
I personally know two people who got the shot on Friday afternoon and got super sick by that evening.
Two data points:
- One person is a friend in her 40s - she got super bad flu symptoms for 24 hours (high fever and all). She said it was the Pfizer one.
-The other is a guy in his 80s. By Friday evening, he was slurring his speech and couldn’t go up stairs. He ended up in the hospital.
I 100% concur with everything u/horseyPatriot stated. I entered the USAF in '88. I was enlisted, not an officer, but the shot processing was exactly as described. They rushed us through so fast, several guys in my flight had small slices on their upper arms from the air guns - they weren't held in place tight enough, and were still "injecting" as the gun was moved away from the skin. Others, who didn't receive cuts, still walked away with the injected substance oozing from their skin.
Same deal with the flu shots - I hated having to get them. I knew they would make me sick, and would have to just work through it on the flightline. They scared the hell out of us about "malingering", so I never wanted to call in sick, or have to visit the base clinic.
TDY processing was better, but looking back, yes, I wonder what the hell I was letting them inject in me all those years.