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shot early  Pharmacist Susan Gordon at a CVS in St. Petersburg
urges people to get a flu shot as early as possible. It&#8217;s
not good to wait and see if a flu outbreak occurs as it takes
two weeks for the vaccine to be effective after getting a shot,
she says.   Pharmacist Susan Gordon at a CVS in St. Petersburg
urges people to get a flu shot as early as possible. It’s not
good to wait and see if a flu outbreak occurs as it takes two
weeks for the vaccine to be effective after getting a shot, she
says.  Even before Labor Day could signal the traditional end of
summer, the seasonal flu vaccine was available at local
drugstores, and health officials were urging nearly everybody to
roll up their sleeves.  But after last year's swine flu pandemic
fizzled, sickening far fewer people than feared, and the news
broke that flu hasn't been as deadly as advertised for years,
will Americans clamo