I can say this. Pretty much everyone I know that has had regular flu shots, has an autoimmune disorder. I Haven’t had the flu in 30 years and I’ve never gotten a shot. And no autoimmune disorder. Correlation, causation, whatever….
"The data included 170 million episodes of care and 7.6 million deaths. Turning 65 was associated with a statistically and clinically significant increase in rate of seasonal influenza vaccination. However, no evidence indicated that vaccination reduced hospitalizations or mortality among elderly persons. The estimates were precise enough to rule out results from many previous studies."
Hi Richard, This is the Anderson et al. article I discussed in the article which preceded this one: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce . This powerful, elegant, research proved beyond reasonable doubt that the researcher's expectation of clinical benefit were unfounded.
It is possible that flu vaccines reduce overall infection rates by making at least some individuals less likely to be infected for any given viral insult and/or by reducing average levels of viral shedding. If the former effect is true of 65 year olds when we might expect it to reduce infections in a way which also reduces total hospitalisations and deaths - but we do not see this.
I can say this. Pretty much everyone I know that has had regular flu shots, has an autoimmune disorder. I Haven’t had the flu in 30 years and I’ve never gotten a shot. And no autoimmune disorder. Correlation, causation, whatever….
See also: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M19-3075
Results:
"The data included 170 million episodes of care and 7.6 million deaths. Turning 65 was associated with a statistically and clinically significant increase in rate of seasonal influenza vaccination. However, no evidence indicated that vaccination reduced hospitalizations or mortality among elderly persons. The estimates were precise enough to rule out results from many previous studies."
Hi Richard, This is the Anderson et al. article I discussed in the article which preceded this one: https://nutritionmatters.substack.com/p/influenza-vaccines-do-not-reduce . This powerful, elegant, research proved beyond reasonable doubt that the researcher's expectation of clinical benefit were unfounded.
It is possible that flu vaccines reduce overall infection rates by making at least some individuals less likely to be infected for any given viral insult and/or by reducing average levels of viral shedding. If the former effect is true of 65 year olds when we might expect it to reduce infections in a way which also reduces total hospitalisations and deaths - but we do not see this.