Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious

Diseases.

It's flu season again.

My boss sent down an email saying, everyone go get the flu shot and I did not.

I do not really want a flu shot.

Is that decision going to haunt me like a house or what?

Well, I don't think it would be hyperbolic.

It's going to haunt you like a house, but that's ill advised that decision, Sean, because

it's, you know, the flu can be a serious disease.

There's multiple levels of why you want to get a flu vaccine.

One obviously, you want to avoid the infection completely, but even if it breaks through and

you do get infected, having been vaccinated can prevent you from getting any of the serious

complications.

So that's the reason why it's recommended for everyone really six months of age or older.

I have multiple levels of why I don't want to get it.

Would you be open to hearing them?

Sure.

So first and foremost, my understanding of the flu shot is I'm giving myself the flu.

Am I mistaken?

You are completely mistaken because you cannot get influenza, the infection influenza from

a flu shot.

Okay.

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