Flu vaccination can keep you from getting sick from flu. 

Protecting yourself from flu also protects the people around you who are more vulnerable to serious flu illness.

Flu vaccination can help protect people who are at greater risk of getting seriously ill from flu, like older adults, people with chronic health conditions and young children (especially infants younger than 6 months old who are too young to get vaccinated).

Flu vaccination also may make your illness milder if you do get sick (Belshe, 1998).

Flu vaccination can reduce the risk of more serious flu outcomes, like hospitalizations and deaths.

Flu Vaccinations reduce children’s risk of flu-related pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission by 74% during flu seasons from 2010-2012 (Ferdinands, 2014).

Flu vaccination is an important preventive tool for people with chronic health conditions. Vaccination was associated with lower rates of some cardiac events among people with heart disease, especially among those who had had a cardiac event in the past year 

Flu vaccination has been shown to be associated with reduced hospitalizations among people with diabetes and chronic lung disease 

Flu Vaccination helps protect women during pregnancy and their babies for up to 6 months after they are born.

 Other studies have shown that vaccination can reduce the risk of flu-related hospitalization in older adults