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[NoelSeven]

Just an FYI on current research. I know we have quite a few people on Viewpoints who are 65+.

"An increased dose of influenza vaccine stimulates a greater immune response than the standard dose in long-term care residents older than 65 years, according to a new study.

'The superiority of high-dose influenza vaccine was demonstrated for all influenza strains except A/H1N1 in 2012-2013,' said Richard Zimmerman, MD, from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

Standard influenza vaccines don't produce as good an immune response in the frail elderly as they do in younger, healthier populations, Andrew Pavia, MD, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who was not involved in the study, told Medscape Medical News."