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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 11 10:59am | Replies (16)
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Yes, you need to be careful about all seasonal respiratory illnesses, including both influenza and COVID-19. When you're immunocompromised, what's a week home sick for others is potentially life-threatening for you.
It's perfectly reasonable to ask casual visitors (like tradespeople) to mask while they're in your house. Any friends and extended family with a cough should mask around you until it clears up. You can also encourage the people closest to you to get their COVID and flu vaccines: if they don't bring the diseases home in the first place, then your body doesn't have to try to fight them off.
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Another vaccine to get is for RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus), especially for older & susceptible people. I only mention it because a woman in our church came down with it for a month. She said she had never heard of it before getting it. I was surprised, because it's been in the news (& TV ads) for two years. Medicare covers it.
Another for older people to get, is the Shingles vaccine. Not a respiratory illness, so you can skip it if you don't mind getting an irritating rash for a couple months when you are older. My father had it in his 90s. I got the vaccine before Medicare covered it.