Are Flu Shots -EV?

[Siegmund]

I tend to think they are +EV only for those few people who are worried about major consequences of catching a full-fledged case of the flu.

They were offered free by my (non-health-industry-related) employer a few years ago. Everyone who got the shot was mildly sick for a few days afterward. Those of us who didn't get the shot, some caught a normal round of the flu that winter, many of us never got sick at all. I, personally, had the impression that for an average healthy person, the symptoms of the shot were very much like catching the flu.

I see why they give it to people whose lives would be endangered by a severe flu case, and why they give it to medical workers who will surely be exposed to the flu each year.