Cynthia Leifer
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“If you have a doctor’s appointment earlier in the fall, just get the flu vaccine that’s available to you,”
Cynthia Leifer · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-11
Leifer recommended getting whatever flu vaccine is available at an earlier doctor's appointment.
“because you may actually be missing an opportunity to protect yourself during the beginning of flu season,”
Cynthia Leifer · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-11
Leifer advised against waiting for mFlusiva if it is not available at vaccination time.
“with this mRNA vaccine, which is the same technology as [the COVID vaccine], if you had a little bit more of a reaction with a COVID vaccine, you might have more reaction with this vaccine because it’s the same kind of technology.”
Cynthia Leifer · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-11
Leifer noted that reactions to the mRNA flu vaccine may resemble reactions to the COVID vaccine.
“Most of the side effects really are the mild injection site soreness, a little bit of fever or a little bit of flu-like feelings, but in the clinical trials that they did, those were mostly mild and mostly lasted maybe one to two days,”
Cynthia Leifer · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-11
Leifer described the side effects observed in clinical trials as mostly mild and lasting one to two days.
“Why they say this mRNA platform is more nimble is because you’re only giving the blueprints ... we can make the mRNA quickly, so when we [figure out] which strain of virus is now going to be dominant, they can go change that quickly in the manufacturing process and get that out,”
Cynthia Leifer · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-11
Leifer explained why the mRNA platform is considered more nimble in adjusting to new dominant virus strains.