⁍ The flu shot does not increase people’s chances of getting COVID-19.

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⁍ Dr. Oz was referring to the flu increasing the chances of transmission of COVID-19, not the flu vaccine.

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⁍ The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has debunked the claim that the flu shot increases the chances of getting sick from COVID-19.

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– “It’s not just a flu shot. It increases the chance, it seems, of you getting Covid-19,” Dr. Mehmet Oz says in a video that’s gone viral on social media. But Oz’s rep tells Reuters that the TV doctor was talking about the flu, not the vaccine. “He responded in agreement with getting the flu shot, saying ‘It’s not just a flu shot. It (the flu) increases the chance, it seems, of you getting Covid-19,'” says Cheryl Crowley. She says Oz was referring to a study that found a correlation between higher influenza vaccination rates and fewer Covid-19 deaths. Oz himself addressed the issue on Twitter last month.