Sentence examples for shot every year from inspiring English sources

Why do we need to get a new flu shot every year?

"My mom in the U.K. can get a shot every year, but that is not realistic in rural Asia".

"We had to sit on him the last time to give it to him," said his wife, Liz, who has a flu shot every year.

(Since influenza viruses mutate pretty easily, certain genetic and antigenic properties from last year's flu can be distinct from this year's flu, which is why it makes sense to get a flu shot every year).

Getting a flu shot every year is the best way to prevent the flu.

Speaking for the private sector, Mary Battrell, a veterinarian with Murphy-Brown, says the company has no formal flu surveillance plan for its workers, although it does require that they get a flu shot every year.

The problem is that there are many strains of flu and the vaccine targets only one, and you need the shots every year cuz the viruses keep changing.

For vaccine manufacturers, it's a bonanza: Influenza shots — given every year, unlike many other vaccines — are a multibillion-dollar global business.

The lumbering giant of the U.S. bureaucracy is the exact opposite in almost every imaginable way: exceptions require painstaking approvals, contract bids are legally required to be inclusive of all parties, and Congress members get one shot every few years to fix a problem.

Over 30,000 Americans are shot and die every year; yet there is strikingly little uniform information on gun homicides, suicides and accidents, and correspondingly little empirical evidence on how to reduce them.The Firearm Injury Centre at the Medical College of Wisconsin has created a Firearm Injury Reporting System (FIRS).

Because vaccine longevity is uncertain, we assumed that successful vaccination conferred immunity for 10 years but that repeated booster shots every 10 years were required to maintain the vaccine's efficacy.