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Flu Shot Externalities

By The Daily Dish

Nov 12 2007, 5:06 AM ET

Go get vaccinated! Bottom line:

Under some conditions each person who is vaccinated reduces the expected number of other people who get the flu by 1.5.

Full study here.



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